Dog-Eared Books, Campbellsville, Ky., will open in mid-August, with a grand opening slated for August 28. Owner T.J. Rayhill, a 19-year-old student at Campbellsville University, "is broadly supported by family, friends and members of his private Christian college community," Bookselling This Week reported.
In advance of the opening, Rayhill had "already begun operating the other two parts of his three-pronged business: direct sales of new books to customers within the local community and beyond through his website, which uses Ingram's services to deliver books on-demand, and a college textbook rental service, which also operates through his website and employs the online distributor Bookrenter.com to ship books anywhere in the country," BTW noted. The store will sell used books in its physical space, "in order to keep costs down and prices low, since the business is located in a relatively low-income area."
