Anyone who predicted independent bookstores would be done in by Amazon probably needs to think again.
Last year, 256 new independent bookstores opened, the fourth year in a row the number exceeded 200, according to the American Booksellers Association.
Now comes another to South Carolina, Ladybird Books on King Street, Charleston’s main downtown shopping street. It occupies an Art Moderne building on the corner of Liberty Street, where Quicksilver once sold surf wear…