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The Joseph-Beth Group, owners of Joseph-Beth Booksellers in Kentucky, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, and of Davis-Kidd Booksellers in Tennessee, is just weeks away from opening its eighth bookstore, in Charlotte, North Carolina. The 18-year-old business, owned by Neil Van Uum, also ventured into new territory in November 2004, when its Pittsburgh store opened in a large mixed-use development project on the site of a former steel mill.
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 Founded in 1955, Kepler's of Menlo Park, California, was created with the goal of serving as a resource and gathering place for civil rights activists, artists, and writers.
Chicago's The Seminary Co-op Bookstore, housed in the basement of Chicago Theological Seminary, was founded in 1961 when 17 students from the University of Chicago and area seminaries each invested $10 to open a co-operative and, shortly after, the bookstore. It has since expanded and has two more branches -- 57th Street Books and The Newberry Library bookstore -- with each store maintaining its own character and the initial co-operative business plan.
 Second Story Book Shop in Chappaqua, New York, is in the middle of a wrangle to stay in its current location. The 32-year-old bookstore is on a month-to-month lease and ownership of their building recently changed. The new landlord is considering renting to a new tenant, while the neighborhood is working to keep the bookstore. Currently, the bookstore is in "limbo," said owner Joan Ripley.
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Flossie McNabb and her daughter, Bunny Sonneland, in front of the store.
The four owners of Carpe Librum. Left to right: Claire Poole, Flossie McNabb, Martha Arnett, Shiela Wood-Navarro.
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Denver's Tattered Cover, which in mid-November opened a new store in the Highlands Ranch Town Center, is involved in a project that may lead to the opening of another location in a new retail center on the main east-west corridor in Denver, at Colfax Avenue and Elizabeth Street. The new store would be the fourth for Tattered Cover, which includes the original Cherry Creek location and a store in Lower Downtown Denver (LoDo). The Denver Film Society and Twist & Shout record store would also be part of the proposed center.
 Pages for All Ages Books, Music, Cafe & DVDs has been serving the Illinois communities of Champaign-Urbana-Savoy since June 1988. Brandon and Susan Griffing founded the store, but in a different location, with far less floor space and fewer titles, and certainly no DVDs.
Among the scams plaguing bookstores across the country is one in which fraudulent orders are placed through the relay telephone system developed to assist the hearing-impaired. To help new employees understand the scam and to provide an appropriate response to a relay call, Molly Seamans, the assistant manager of Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Massachusetts, put together a relay call reference sheet, which is shown to all new employees when they join the staff, and a dialog sheet, which is taped near the telephones at the store's information desk.
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Bob Hugo at the 40th anniversary of The Spirit of '76 Bookstore.
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The King's English Bookshop is a fixture in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Betsy Burton is a local and national fixture as its proprietor. Her 27-year odyssey as a bookseller in the Mormon hub, and as a community activist, writer, and mother of a child with multiple disabilities, is chronicled in The King's English: Adventures of an Independent Bookseller, to be published in May by Gibbs Smith.
 Titcomb's Book Shop in East Sandwich, Massachusetts, got its curious start in 1967 when Ralph and Nancy Titcomb bought a house in Connecticut and found caches of valuable books and documents throughout their home and barn. An impromptu business began when they sold their finds and then launched a mail-order business and had their eight children collating and compiling a catalog.
 The Polar Express Ride for Reading, a national marketing campaign developed by Houghton Mifflin and Book Sense and timed with the release of Warner Brothers' animated adaptation of Chris Van Allsburg's The Polar Express this past holiday season, spurred many booksellers to create special events, utilizing the party k
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