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A drug dealer who gets to recommend the next hit, legally.
means A person whose business is selling books, whether from a shop, a stall, or a website.
from A straightforward compound of 'book' and 'seller' — no hidden story here. English has been stacking nouns like this for centuries ('shoemaker,' 'fishmonger'), and 'bookseller' appears once printing made books plentiful enough in Europe to need dedicated merchants, distinct from the printers who actually produced them.
- margins
- Lower than almost any retail job imaginable
- superpower
- Remembers your weird taste from one conversation, years later
- survival mode
- Handselling, not algorithms, keeps indie shops alive
- occupational hazard
- Reads the ending first, still gets surprised