#reading-culture

#reading-culture

Sounding amused, publisher Pramod Kapoor recalls the reaction of the Indian cricketing legend Bishen Singh Bedi when he learned Kapoor was printing 3,000 copies of his autobiography. Only 3,000? he protested. I fill stadiums with 50-60,000 people coming to see me play and you think that's all my book is going to sell? Kapoor, the founder of Roli Books, explains that Bedi's legions of admirers were unlikely to translate into book buyers. That was in 2021.

Emma, the Instagram-famous Persian cat that roams Recycle Bookstore in San Jose, is "prissy, finicky, very loud and opinionated." Her role is to create a sense of leisure for customers.