"New literary fiction is the new star" at Dudley's BookShop Café, Bend, Ore., which has undergone some significant changes since Tom Beans became Rebecca Singer's business partner at the store that had previously focused on used books. The Bulletin reported that in the months since Beans came on board, "the little store has undergone a technical and philosophical reconfiguration."
"I was pretty much burned out till he came in," Singer said. "My get-up-and-go got up and went.... We needed somebody with real expertise."
"We're definitely not trying to be a general bookstore," said Beans, who ran a bookstore in California during the 1990s. Since Dudley's began ordering new books November 20, sales have jumped 300%.
"Sales of books over Christmas has been incredible," Singer noted. "We have a lot of competition, but no other coffee shops have books."
