For our final in-person panel of the year, Minnesota Book Publishers Roundtable convened booksellers from our most dynamic community-oriented bookstores, including Big Hill Books, Milkweed, Black Garnet Books, and Wild Rumpus, to share their perspectives on supporting the diverse reading communities upon which all our work depends.

Discussion topics included:

• The place of bookstores in Minnesota’s reading and educational ecosystem
• The efforts of booksellers to meet current readers and recruit future ones
• The role of bookstores as a stable haven for diverse perspectives
• What publishers and those in publisher-adjacent fields can learn from booksellers’ local perspective on the reading public

The panel discussion was followed by a brief Q&A.

Members can listen to the full discussion in the Resources area on the MBPR website.