Good News, Bad News For The Little Guys

Anonymous Patron writes Ottawa Business Journal looks inside the ol’ mom-and-pop book shops, and says in general, they’re doing just fine, thank you very much. They may not be winning the fight, but neither are most of them losing thanks to some common sense and hard work.

Significantly different story at the San Jose Mercury News where Kepler’s, the Menlo Park independent bookstore that drew loyal readers from around the Bay Area for more than 50 years, abruptly closed Wednesday.” More on the closing of Kepler’s in Palo Alto On-line .