Return of independent bookstores? | Morning Break - WTOC

Ken Griner, Daybreak Anchor says, It’s often hard to get people to actually come into a store, but then it gets even tougher to get shoppers in the smaller stores. Independent bookstores may be slightly reversing a trend.
 

Small bookstores on the rise.

According to the American Booksellers Association, in the mid-90s to 2009, 40 percent of independent bookstores closed. Last year, sales were up more than five percent, and one local bookstore says they’ve seen that.

“I think appreciation of small businesses, and what they do, the uniqueness or our space, the knowledge that we bring, the cats that are involved,” E. Shaver Bookseller owner Jessica Osborne said...

Shaver’s is just one of at least three small bookstores in the Historic District. The other two are mainly used books, but they all must fight for that walk-in customer in an online world.
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Source: WTOC