Hi, I'm Dampra Mac, and welcome to Axios Recap, presented by Facebook. Today is Thursday, June 25th.

Bank stocks are up. Coronavirus vaccine developer Moderna has seen its stock go down, which will explain

later, and we're focused on what happened after black-owned bookstores went viral.

In the midst of weeks of Black Lives Matter protests following the death of George Floyd,

lists of anti-racism books and of black-owned bookstores began appearing all over social networks like Instagram.

You might have seen some of them. I certainly did. Now, the proprietors of those bookstores

are trying to fill hundreds of thousands of orders, often for just a handful of titles. Now, the proprietors of those bookstores are trying to fill hundreds of thousands of orders,

often for just a handful of titles.

Now, this sounds great in theory, and it was certainly well-intentioned.

But in practice, this is much more complicated.

Many of the booksellers simply don't have enough of the specific books listed on those

posts.

So they order more. But publishers don't have enough in stock. So listed on those posts. So they order more, but publishers

don't have enough in stock. So the publishers call their printers who now are rushing to catch up.

In the meantime, customers wait, and in some cases, vent their frustrations on, you guessed

it, social media. Again, this is a challenge that involves the entire publishing food chain, but most of the

spotlight has been on bookstore owners like Danielle Mullen, the founder of semi-colon books in

Chicago. She spoke with the New York Times earlier this week and wants to push back against this

idea that the situation has, quote, overwhelmed proprietors like herself. We'll talk to Danielle in 15 seconds about how

her shop handled the initial shock of the pandemic and the current deluge of orders. But first,

this. We're joined now by Danielle Mullen, the founder and proprietor of semicolon books in Chicago.

Let's start out before the protests.

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