Chapter one: starting a book business

The Nashville City Paper talks with Gene and Cassie McCabe who have started a business for booklovers that is part dot.com, part garage sale and part buyers’ club.

The genesis for their enterprise, FrugalReader.com, came about from Gene McCabe spending money on books from bookstores, reading them and then seeing them sit on his bookshelf.

“A book is still in pretty good shape when I finish reading it and I don’t generally read a book twice,” he said. “Someone might like to read that book, but I don’t know where that person is.”