As part of a Small Business Week series about "local merchants beloved by customers whose devotion goes beyond loyalty and well into passion," Inc. magazine profiles Changing Hands Bookstore, Tempe and Phoenix, Ariz., in a story called "Part Bookstore, Part Retail Theater, This Tempe Business Became a Local Mainstay: How Changing Hands built a near-symbiotic relationship with its community through cultural, political, and civic involvement."
The story outlines Changing Hands' history and its wealth of programs, events and its involvement in the community, going back to its founding in 1974 as as a place where people could trade used books. "We called it Changing Hands because we liked to think of books going from one person to the next, and the ideas going with them," co-owner Gayle Shanks told Inc.
Congratulations to Gayle and co-owners Bob Sommer and Cindy Dach and their great staff!