A2: Shaman Drum

Publishers Weekly has a post about the recent news that Shaman Drum Bookshop is closing. The article reports on an interview with owner Karl Pohrt: “He ascribed his store’s demise to the cumulative impact of the collapse of the U.S. economy this past fall, along with the high rate of unemployment in Michigan, the lack of money allocated to education in the state, the popularity of Kindle and Sony readers among his core group of customers (students and humanities professors), and, finally, the University of Michigan itself, which is now requiring ISBNs of textbooks to be posted by professors a month before classes began.” [Source]