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Rags 'n Reads books and clothing store in Adams, N.Y., will close at the end of the month, and owner LuAnne E. Rowsam plans to open the Reading Room, a discount bookstore, this July in Watertown at the Salmon Run Mall. The Daily Times reported that Rowsam's current business, "which sells a combination of children's books and discount apparel, could not draw enough customer traffic to be successful."
"We tried everything but just couldn't get people in the door," she said, adding: "The book side was very successful, and I sold more books than clothes." A representative from Salmon Run Mall contacted her to discuss launching a bookstore there. "He came to us because of the books."
Rowsam said the new store's overstock books, to be purchased from a wholesaler in Canada, will be sold at 25% off cover prices. "We want to carry the kind of books all people want to read, whether it's nonfiction, religion and spirituality, sports, horror, romance or crime stories," she noted, adding that a section devoted to authors from the North Country also will be featured.