Chris Morrow 
Northshire Books

Chris Morrow, President of Northshire Bookstore in Manchester Center, VT, is the beneficiary of nepotism and spends most of his time trying not to screw things up. The vagaries of the book business keep him busy. He is a graduate of Oberlin College and U of Michigan (Natural Resources), was in the Peace Corps in Thailand and now is trying to figure out what the bookstore will look like in the coming decades. He lives in Weston, VT with his wife, two kids, father-in-law, 3 cats, 2 dogs, one rabbit, 32 sheep, 8 geese and dozens of chickens.


New Business Models: Changing the Commercial Rules of Publishing

Ebook first publishing and a bookstore that prints its own inventory are two completely new models enabled by digital change. So is a major publisher’s revenue-generating marketing initiative. All are represented on this panel. Richard Nash, formerly US publisher of Soft Skull Press, and Eoin Purcell, a young veteran of Irish publishing, are both setting up new model... Read More