Fisher Nash
Bookseller and book buyer at Carmichael's Bookstore in Louisville, Kentucky. Explains how independent bookstores evaluate titles, place orders, and decide where books appear in the store.
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Apr 10, 2026 • 41min
BOOKstore Economics
Fisher Nash, a bookseller and buyer at Carmichael’s in Louisville, pulls back the curtain on how stores choose what makes the shelves. They get into bestseller table battles, 30-second title judgments, publisher codes and sales pitches, and how shelf placement can make or bury a book. There’s also the strange afterlife of unsold books, from bargain bins to the shredder.
