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The Emerson Collective, the LLC founded by Laurene Powell Jobs, is helping indie bookstores develop community outreach as well as “not-for-profit and hybrid business models that could help them ‘supercharge’ their programming,” Publishers Weekly reports. Will Ames, the portfolio director for philanthropy at the Emerson Collective, called booksellers “curators” who excel at executing “mission-related work” like readings, educational projects, and literacy programs, adding, “I want every small town that needs a bookstore to have one that is really thriving.”