Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Booksellers Fight the Good Fight: For the Weekly Alibi

bookworm rejecting e-book reader
A fun one for the Weekly Alibi (here's the article). It's about the battle that independent booksellers have been fighting since the creation of e-book technology -- How to be relevant and appeal to customers who in large part have turned to Kindles and Kobos to satisfy their literary needs. 

In a way, it's a companion piece to this illustration I did for Alternatives Journal. That article discussed how the new technologies are innovating the publishing industry. This latest article for the Alibi recounts how booksellers are fighting to retain a piece of that publishing pie. 

 Sketch:

-- Julia 

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I love this piece Julia :)

Julia Minamata said...

Thanks :D