New York`s Strand bookstore fights back over landmark status
(The Guardian Books News)

Nancy Bass Wyden, the third-generation owner of the building and the business, warns its new status could `destroy´ the popular storeIn its 92-year history, the Strand, a New York institution and one of the world´s largest independent bookstores, has endured everything from the Great Depression to the explosion of Amazon.It is a cruel irony, then, that having survived against the odds, the latest potential threat to the third-generation family business comes from an organisation whose purpose is supposed to be to protect. Related: Why are New York´s bookstores disappearing? Continue reading...