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| Shane Gottwals | |
Walls of Books, the franchise operation that sells mostly used books and some new books and is run by Shane Gottwals of Gottwals Books, now has 15 stores open or preparing to open and is "in discussions with many other families to open new stores across the country," Gottwals wrote. "In the age of e-books and amazon.com, we are proving that people still love the printed page."
In the next two months, two Walls of Books stores are opening in Georgia and one in Washington, D.C. In the last two months, two stores opened, in Georgia and South Carolina. The company has also bought a central warehouse for books, its corporate offices and its franchise training center.
Gottwals added the Walls of Books regularly works on revamping current stores, buying out closed bookstore inventory and rebranding existing stores as Walls of Books, as well as its usual complete bookstore installations.
In 2007, Shane Gottwals founded the first Gottwals Books, in Warner Robins, Ga., a 1,500-square-foot store carrying 10,000 used books.