Cool idea of the day: during the last few weeks before Christmas, Roxanne Coady, owner of RJ Julia Booksellers in
Madison, Conn., and RJ Julia at Elm Street Books, New Canaan, Conn.,
promotes the stores' Just the Right Book and Personal Shopper services
with daily evening e-mails highlighting potential gift books.
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The Berkeley Daily Planet remembers Debi Echlin, owner of A Great Good Place for Books, Oakland, Calif., who died at 52 on November 25 (Shelf Awareness, November 29).
Hut Landon, executive director of the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association (Echlin was a board member), told the paper: "I hear from people they've really lost a friend, not just a retail person who everybody likes in the community, this is much deeper than that."
Kathleen Caldwell, Echlin's friend and colleague who has taken over the store, commented: "She believed that this was a community, she made it her community and she really instilled that in all of us. . . . She treated the customers as if they were our best friends."
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The Berkeley Daily Planet remembers Debi Echlin, owner of A Great Good Place for Books, Oakland, Calif., who died at 52 on November 25 (Shelf Awareness, November 29).
Hut Landon, executive director of the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association (Echlin was a board member), told the paper: "I hear from people they've really lost a friend, not just a retail person who everybody likes in the community, this is much deeper than that."
Kathleen Caldwell, Echlin's friend and colleague who has taken over the store, commented: "She believed that this was a community, she made it her community and she really instilled that in all of us. . . . She treated the customers as if they were our best friends."