This month Dudley’s Bookshop Café is celebrating 50 years of bookselling in Downtown Bend. It is rare for any retail business to survive for 50 years, but in a town that has seen as many changes as Bend, Oregon, to have an independent bookstore as a downtown fixture for so long is even more surprising. …
Dudley’s Bookshop Café, an independent bookstore in Bend, OR, has become the first U.S. bookstore to join 1% for the Planet. Dudley’s is donating 1 percent of its annual gross sales to local environmental nonprofits approved by the organization, a worldwide nonprofit based in Burlington, Vermont. “As booksellers, our mission is not only to provide …
Ever since freshman year of high school, when I was first introduced to the likes of Great Expectations and The Ox-Bow Incident, talking about books—for me—has always come a close second to actually reading them. So, in December, I boarded a plane in Philadelphia to live every bibliophile’s dream: selling books. I couldn’t have felt …
