Panel followed by q&a: Two bookstore owners and a book distributor representative will talk and answer questions about the process of how books are distributed and sold, and how this matters to established publishers and self-publishing writers. With Jeff Mayersohn of the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge (MA), Willard Williams of the independent chain of Toadstool bookstores in southern New Hampshire, and Stephen Williamson of New England Book Reps.
Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.