4 Indian Indie bookshops
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Community of readers
What makes an indie bookshop memorable is the community of readers it creates, according to Neha Tiwari, co-founder of Pagdandi, a Pune-based library-bookshop
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Find the right readers
Ahalya Naidu, co-founder of Bandra bookstore Trilogy, says that books are just “waiting for the right reader to find them”
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Personality of a place
For Vishwanath Biradar, the second-generation owner of Book Lovers, curating a collection of books for an indie bookstore depends on personality of the place
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Not customers but readers
According to Naidu, indie bookstores do not deal with just customers, but readers, getting to know them and find them the best books
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Focus on a genre
Leonard Fernandes, founder of the Dog Ears bookstore in Margao in Goa says that running an indie bookshop requires one to stand out
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