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Andrew Laties is an American writer and bookseller born in Baltimore, Maryland.
Laties has written for a variety of websites [1] [2] and magazines [3] He also maintains a personal blog. [4]
In 2005 Vox Pop published his IPPY Award-winning [5] book Rebel Bookseller: How To Improvise Your Own Indie Store And Beat Back The Chains. [6] [7] [8] [9] Vox Pop was an independent publisher and a well-known local café in Brooklyn, New York [10] [11] [12] [13] with which Laties was intimately involved. [14] As of September 8, 2010, however, Vox Pop was forced to close its doors. [15]
A second edition entitled Rebel Bookseller: Why Indie Businesses Represent Everything You Want to Fight for—from Free Speech to Buying Local to Building Communities came out in July 2011 from Seven Stories Press. [16]
In addition to his writing, Laties has spoken on the current state of independent publishing. [17] Most recently he presented a lecture titled "Indie Bookstores Still Count: What We Can Do For Publishers, and What Publishers Can Do For Us" at the Digital Book World 2011 conference. [18]
Laties is the founding manager of the Eric Carle Museum Bookshop [19] [20] in Amherst, Massachusetts. Previously, in Chicago, Illinois, Laties co-founded The Children's Bookstore (1985–1996), [21] [22] [23] which received the 1987 WNBA Pannell Award for Excellence in Children's Bookselling. [24] He then created The Children's Museum Store (1994–2002). [25]
Laties with his life and artistic partner Rebecca Migdal is the proprietor of Book & Puppet a bookstore and performance venue on Northampton Street in Easton, Pennsylvania which opened in its first incarnation in the city in 2017. [26] Book and Puppet opened a new and eventually exclusive location on Center Square in Easton in 2019. [27]