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July 14, 2009By Michael Cader

Bookselling: Still Hoping to Finance Return of San Jose Store; UK Agents to Become Booksellers

July 14, 2009By Michael Cader

San Jose’s independent store Willow Glen Books closed in May “because of decreasing sales and [owner Cathy Adkins] having to grapple with health issues,” but Roland Vierra is still working on a second attempt to get financing and start the store up again, in arrangement with owner Cathy Adkins. “Vierra said the owner of the building is willing to be patient while he works to get adequate financial backing to reopen the bookstore.”
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In the UK, agents Sarah Lutyens and Felicity Rubinstein are opening a bookstore in London’s Notting Hill in October. They are recruiting a store manager now. They tell the Bookseller, “We have wanted to expand into bookselling for a long time and now the moment seems right. We seem to be entering a golden age of independent bookselling as readers become increasingly disenchanted with the supermarket atmosphere of the chains and there is a new appetite amongst book buyers for a morecarefully curated experience.”
Bookseller
http://www.thebookseller.com/news/91147-lutyens–rubinstein-to-open-bookshop.html

Filed Under: Bookstores, Free, International News Tagged With: Closing, Opening

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