Among points made in a San Francisco Chronicle story about the purchase of Cody's Books by Yohan, Inc.:
- Cody's longtime owner Andy Ross had hoped that the company's San Francisco store, opened almost a year ago, would "spread out our overhead," but sales didn't grow fast enough to make up for problems at Cody's Telegraph Avenue store.
- Brand recognition of Cody's in San Francisco wasn't as high as Ross expected. "I thought we would just open the doors and everyone would pour in," Ross told the paper. "Cody's was so well-branded in Berkeley that I took it for granted, but still there are a lot of people in San Francisco who don't know that the store exists."
- In recent months, Cody's financial problems led some publishers to withhold credit to the store; as a result, inventory at Cody's stores in San Francisco and on Fourth Street in Berkeley dropped by a third.