Yesterday's issue, which featured a debut column by Robert Gray in which he asked for reactions, included a link to his Fresh Eyes Now Web site, which has information about how to contact him, but we omitted to put in a direct e-mail link for Robert. It's fresheyesnow@yahoo.com. Shelf Awareness regrets any confusion we caused!
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Kelly Coffey, a bookseller at Verbatim Booksellers, Vail Colo., for the last six years and a freelancer for the Vail Trail, a local newspaper, offers a long piece about how the store has adapted to changes in the town and retail in general. As he puts it, "I've seen the town change. Vail's bookstore, as a result, has needed to re-invent itself more times than Madonna (who, by the way, writes children's books now). It has gone through three owners and four locations since it began. After each of these changes--whether it was a new owner or another move--the bookstore came out with a new identity. Same name; different store."
At the end of the month, Verbatim moves yet again to a new 500-sq.-ft. storefront--a third its current size--in the redeveloped Sonnenalp Hotel, on the town's bus route and location of the Vail Farmer's Market. "Though the new location is less than 200 yards from the store's current spot in the Village Inn Plaza, the move represents much more than just carrying boxes across the street," Coffey writes. "It represents another reinvention of the store. It also brings to the forefront the fight to keep a sense of community in Vail, and one small business's struggle to keep up with the ever-changing faces of the bookselling industry."
Owner Robert Aikens was able to raise about $75,000 from a range of people (Shelf Awareness, May 28) to stay in business and is reportedly optimistic.
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Virginia Stanley has been promoted to director, academic and library marketing, at HarperCollins, where she has worked 18 years. In an announcement, Diane Burrowes said Stanley "has revolutionized the way we market our books to libraries."
Stanley helped create the AAP's Authors@yourlibrary Web site, is a Friends of Libraries, USA board member and was featured in Library Journal's "Movers and Shakers 2002."
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Kelly Coffey, a bookseller at Verbatim Booksellers, Vail Colo., for the last six years and a freelancer for the Vail Trail, a local newspaper, offers a long piece about how the store has adapted to changes in the town and retail in general. As he puts it, "I've seen the town change. Vail's bookstore, as a result, has needed to re-invent itself more times than Madonna (who, by the way, writes children's books now). It has gone through three owners and four locations since it began. After each of these changes--whether it was a new owner or another move--the bookstore came out with a new identity. Same name; different store."
At the end of the month, Verbatim moves yet again to a new 500-sq.-ft. storefront--a third its current size--in the redeveloped Sonnenalp Hotel, on the town's bus route and location of the Vail Farmer's Market. "Though the new location is less than 200 yards from the store's current spot in the Village Inn Plaza, the move represents much more than just carrying boxes across the street," Coffey writes. "It represents another reinvention of the store. It also brings to the forefront the fight to keep a sense of community in Vail, and one small business's struggle to keep up with the ever-changing faces of the bookselling industry."
Owner Robert Aikens was able to raise about $75,000 from a range of people (Shelf Awareness, May 28) to stay in business and is reportedly optimistic.
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Virginia Stanley has been promoted to director, academic and library marketing, at HarperCollins, where she has worked 18 years. In an announcement, Diane Burrowes said Stanley "has revolutionized the way we market our books to libraries."
Stanley helped create the AAP's Authors@yourlibrary Web site, is a Friends of Libraries, USA board member and was featured in Library Journal's "Movers and Shakers 2002."