What does it take for two university students to start a bookstore? “A lot of foolish optimism and blind faith in our abilities,” says Marina Sano Litchfield. “For a long time, our whole game plan was: get books, sell books.” Together with Jing Xuan Teo in 2020, Marina launched Amplify Bookstore, an independent online business dedicated to selling books by authors who are Black, Indigenous and people of colour. The goal? To make books from racially diverse perspectives easier to find, and to offer readers from those
