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This Startup Is Taking On Amazon to Help Independent Bookstores

Most companies have mission statements. The Lit. Bar has a mission poem. When Noelle Santos launched her New York City borough’s sole independent bookstore in April 2019, she laid out in verse her intention to bring together the community through books. “The Bronx is no longer burning,” wrote Santos, “except with the desire to read.”

Ten months later, the Lit. Bar shut its doors with the rest of New York. Dissatisfied with curbside service and worried about the health of her customers and employees, Santos intends to delay reopening, an option made possible by the $500,000 she’s made off of more than $1.5 million in sales for May and June.

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