Indies: Celebration and Struggle Menlo Park-based independent Kepler’s celebrated the one-year anniversary of the store’s rescue by local investors and about 2,000 supporting members over the weekend. But the Mercury news reports, “In spite of the community outpouring, store owner Clark Kepler said sales are about the same as they were when the store closed last year and he expects to break even in the coming year.” To the north in Salem, Oregon, Jackson’s Books will close at the end of the year, following years of sales declines. SJ Mercury News Salem paper Dreaming Bigger PC Advisor magazine reports that […]
