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It also serves as an event space, artist venue, community hangout, and resource centre with coffee, tea, WiFi, computers, and internet access.","source_type":"1p_website","source_label":"Brand's website","source_url":"https://spartacusbooks.net","updated_at":"2026-11-07T06:46:30.647146+00:00"}]},{"header":"Identity","sections":[{"key":"mission","label":"Mission","shape":"text","content":"To provide progressive, non-sectarian tools, ideas, and information for social change, and to support community organizing, cultural activity, and struggles against oppression.","source_type":"1p_website","source_label":"Brand's website","source_url":"https://spartacusbooks.net","updated_at":"2026-11-07T06:46:30.647146+00:00"},{"key":"leadership","label":"Founders & leadership","shape":"text","content":"Run entirely by volunteers through a collective that uses consensus decision-making. The organization states that it has no staff.","source_type":"1p_website","source_label":"Brand's website","source_url":"https://spartacusbooks.net","updated_at":"2026-11-07T06:46:30.647146+00:00"},{"key":"website","label":"Website","shape":"text","content":"https://spartacusbooks.net","source_type":"1p_website","source_label":"Brand's website","source_url":"https://spartacusbooks.net","updated_at":"2026-11-07T06:46:30.647146+00:00"},{"key":"voice_tone","label":"Voice & tone","shape":"text","content":"Progressive, activist, community-oriented, welcoming, and informative.","source_type":"1p_website","source_label":"Brand's website","source_url":"https://spartacusbooks.net","updated_at":"2026-11-07T06:46:30.647146+00:00"},{"key":"founded","label":"Founded","shape":"text","content":"Begun in 1972 as a student booktable; operating as Spartacus Books since 1973.","source_type":"1p_website","source_label":"Brand's website","source_url":"https://spartacusbooks.net","updated_at":"2026-11-07T06:46:30.647146+00:00"},{"key":"headquarters","label":"Headquarters","shape":"text","content":"Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; currently located near Commercial and 4th.","source_type":"1p_website","source_label":"Brand's website","source_url":"https://spartacusbooks.net","updated_at":"2026-11-07T06:46:30.647146+00:00"},{"key":"parent_ownership","label":"Parent ownership","shape":"text","content":"Independent nonprofit; no parent organization is identified.","source_type":"1p_website","source_label":"Brand's website","source_url":"https://spartacusbooks.net","updated_at":"2026-11-07T06:46:30.647146+00:00"}]},{"header":"Offerings","sections":[{"key":"problem_solved","label":"Problem solved","shape":"text","content":"Provides access to books, publications, zines, and community resources addressing social justice and movements against classism, racism, sexism, war, corporate greed, environmental destruction, and other institutional oppression.","source_type":"1p_website","source_label":"Brand's website","source_url":"https://spartacusbooks.net","updated_at":"2026-11-07T06:46:30.647146+00:00"},{"key":"core_capabilities","label":"Core capabilities","shape":"text","content":"Bookstore retail and special orders\nCurated selection of radical, progressive, and social-justice publications\nZines, badges, patches, T-shirts, posters, and other merchandise\nEvent and meeting space\nArtist venue\nCommunity networking and gathering space\nVolunteer-led community organizing and fundraising\nFree computers and internet access","source_type":"1p_website","source_label":"Brand's website","source_url":"https://spartacusbooks.net","updated_at":"2026-11-07T06:46:30.647146+00:00"},{"key":"products","label":"Products / SKUs","shape":"text","content":"New and used books\nZines\nMagazines and journals\nComix\nBadges and patches\nT-shirts\nPosters\nCoffee and tea","source_type":"1p_website","source_label":"Brand's website","source_url":"https://spartacusbooks.net","updated_at":"2026-11-07T06:46:30.647146+00:00"},{"key":"pricing","label":"Pricing","shape":"text","content":"Specific pricing is not stated. Special orders are available with no additional charge, and the store offers inexpensive used books.","source_type":"1p_website","source_label":"Brand's website","source_url":"https://spartacusbooks.net","updated_at":"2026-11-07T06:46:30.647146+00:00"}]},{"header":"Audience","sections":[{"key":"target_industry","label":"Target industry","shape":"text","content":"Independent bookstore, infoshop, publishing and community resource centre","source_type":"1p_website","source_label":"Brand's website","source_url":"https://spartacusbooks.net","updated_at":"2026-11-07T06:46:30.647146+00:00"},{"key":"customer_base","label":"Customer base","shape":"text","content":"People in Vancouver and the surrounding community seeking progressive books, zines, periodicals, cultural events, community resources, and space for gathering and organizing.","source_type":"1p_website","source_label":"Brand's website","source_url":"https://spartacusbooks.net","updated_at":"2026-11-07T06:46:30.647146+00:00"},{"key":"icp","label":"Ideal customer profile","shape":"text","content":"Readers, activists, organizers, artists, students, and community members interested in radical theory, social justice, anti-oppression movements, feminism, queer studies, Indigenous literature, ecology, anarchism, Marxism, and related subjects.","source_type":"1p_website","source_label":"Brand's website","source_url":"https://spartacusbooks.net","updated_at":"2026-11-07T06:46:30.647146+00:00"},{"key":"use_cases","label":"Use cases","shape":"text","content":"Finding books and publications on social justice, radical politics, culture, and social movements\nOrdering a specific title that is not in stock\nBuying locally produced and hard-to-find zines\nAttending movie nights, meetings, poetry readings, and other community events\nUsing the space to read, network, and access free computers and internet\nHosting meetings, events, and cultural activities\nVolunteering in bookstore operations, events, outreach, fundraising, and collective decision-making","source_type":"1p_website","source_label":"Brand's website","source_url":"https://spartacusbooks.net","updated_at":"2026-11-07T06:46:30.647146+00:00"},{"key":"customer_outcomes","label":"Customer outcomes","shape":"text","content":"Access to diverse and hard-to-find books, zines, magazines, and other resources\nConnection with community members, artists, activists, and organizers\nA space for learning, networking, meetings, and cultural events\nAbility to obtain specific titles through no-additional-charge special orders\nOpportunities to support and participate in a volunteer-run community institution","source_type":"1p_website","source_label":"Brand's website","source_url":"https://spartacusbooks.net","updated_at":"2026-11-07T06:46:30.647146+00:00"}]}],"last_refreshed_at":"2026-11-07T06:46:30.672587+00:00","last_changed_at":"2026-11-07T06:46:30.678377+00:00","claim_url":"https://app.optimly.ai/sign-up?claim=a6e27447-a8b6-4e3f-b2c5-8a45add87e17"}