Chris Morrow, the store’s general manager and progeny of the store founders, was kind enough to take some time out of his busy schedule to answer a couple questions about Northshire’s past, present and future.

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Josh on November 13th, 2009

Every bookseller knows the feeling. A customer comes in looking for a book. They can’t remember any words from the title. They can’t recall the author’s name or much of anything about the book. They think that maybe it was in the store’s front window last fall and the cover is [...]

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Josh on November 1st, 2009

Yesterday, I put my indie bookselling cred on the line and memory to the test, resolving to recommend a book from each of the sections in our store.  9 hours and nearly 60 recommendations later, I pulled it off.
Collected here, you have proof that there’s no real reason (at least in terms of quality) to [...]

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Josh on October 6th, 2009

Note: I try to keep this blog pretty general interest, but this post is all about bookselling and bookstores.  Feel free to read it if you aren’t in the book biz, but I can’t promise it’ll be interesting.  Book reviews and beer reviews are coming this week, so just pop back by tomorrow or check [...]

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