In the June issue of Footnotes, our newsletter for Northwest independent bookstores, we reprinted a list of comments heard by Cynthia Christensen’s husband, Charlie, when he was managing their store, The Book Stop in Hood River, OR, while Cynthia was out sick. Charlie, whose day job is in an emergency room at the local hospital, was so surprised by some of the things he heard on a daily basis that he kept a log, which was the basis for the list we published. Either the folks at Shelf Awareness saw and reprinted parts of our article, or Cynthia also sent the list to them and they published parts of the list in their issue of July 11, titled Notes From an ER Bookseller. Apparently THAT was picked up by a Twitter user, who then posted a hashtag called bookstorebingo to see what other gems booksellers might reveal. THAT list inspired THIS article on the Huffington Post. See what you’ve started, Cynthia?!?!
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Bookstop List Inspires HuffPost Article
July 23, 2010
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