Last week The Corvallis Gazette-Times, local rag of of Grass Roots Books & Music, published a panel by a local cartoonist that paid tribute to “the wonderfulness of independent bookstores,” as Grass Roots’s Pamela Moeller put it. It also happened to spin the whole shop local/buy Amazon thing, which we can at least enjoy in …
Today we checked in with Third Street Books’ Sylla McClellan to see how the weekend went following last Wednesday’s “Ditch Amazon” decree. McClellan says: “We had four people bring in their closed accounts – which was great. But more importantly, we had a lot of positive conversations with people about it (and great sales numbers …
Sylla McClellan is Past President of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association and a scrapper of a small business owner (she runs two in McMinnville, Oregon). And she’s not going to take it anymore. If you are on her newsletter mailing list, today you received the following declaration. After you read this humdinger of a teaser, …
