The Longmont Daily Times-Call strolled along the Pearl Street
Mall, the downtown Boulder, Colo., pedestrian mall that is populated
mostly by independent retailers, including the Boulder Bookstore, now a
20,000-sq.-ft. store in several buildings. The bookstore is owned by
David Bolduc, co-founder of the Boulder Independent Business Alliance,
a model for other cities' and towns' local business groups. To learn
more about what may or may not make the mall work, click here.
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Reporting from Kansas City, Mo., the Los Angeles Times offers a glimpse at the dynamics of a book tour by a possible presidential candidate, in this case Senator John McCain on behalf of Character Is Destiny. With all the talk of politics, the author's 2000 campaign and questions of another run, sometimes, the paper commented, "you had to remind yourself McCain is on a book tour."
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Earlier this month, Kathy LaBarge opened Trillium Books in Cathlamet, Wash., according to the Daily News of Longview, Wash. The 400-sq.-ft. store stocks mostly used books with what LaBarge called "a pretty good section of Northwest interests--books on Lewis and Clark and by local authors." In a kind of his-and-hers approach to shelving, she added that her favorite books are in one section and her husband's in another.
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Two major remainder companies that sued each other over a failed merger have settled, according to Bargain Book News. Neither American Book Co., Knoxville, Tenn., nor Book Depot/True Remainders, St. Catharines, Ont., would discuss the settlement.
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The faculty- and student-owned Bookstore at the University of Montana has bought a commercial lot on which it will build its second store, the Missoulian reported. The branch is intended to serve the growing number of students living offcampus on Missoula's south side.
"This is the perfect location because of the density of students that live out there," manager Bryan Thornton told the paper.
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Reporting from Kansas City, Mo., the Los Angeles Times offers a glimpse at the dynamics of a book tour by a possible presidential candidate, in this case Senator John McCain on behalf of Character Is Destiny. With all the talk of politics, the author's 2000 campaign and questions of another run, sometimes, the paper commented, "you had to remind yourself McCain is on a book tour."
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Earlier this month, Kathy LaBarge opened Trillium Books in Cathlamet, Wash., according to the Daily News of Longview, Wash. The 400-sq.-ft. store stocks mostly used books with what LaBarge called "a pretty good section of Northwest interests--books on Lewis and Clark and by local authors." In a kind of his-and-hers approach to shelving, she added that her favorite books are in one section and her husband's in another.
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Two major remainder companies that sued each other over a failed merger have settled, according to Bargain Book News. Neither American Book Co., Knoxville, Tenn., nor Book Depot/True Remainders, St. Catharines, Ont., would discuss the settlement.
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The faculty- and student-owned Bookstore at the University of Montana has bought a commercial lot on which it will build its second store, the Missoulian reported. The branch is intended to serve the growing number of students living offcampus on Missoula's south side.
"This is the perfect location because of the density of students that live out there," manager Bryan Thornton told the paper.