New Tech Keeps Sellers of Old Books Afloat ; 60% to 70% of Local Shop's Sales Conducted Online
Gazette, The; Colorado Springs, Colo. › February 23, 2007
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Doug Clausen moves around his cozy, antiquarian bookshop, hands alighting on an 1866 treatise on fortunetelling; a diminutive Big Little Book from the 1930s; a turn-of-the-century volume by J.M. Barrie, the author of "Peter Pan," bearing a small stamp of the book's designer on its leather cover.
Clausen's dance of exploration among crowded shelves might seem as arcane as a 17th century minuet. Books? Old books at that? C'mon, it's the 21st century, when even seniors are paying their bills online, where 4-year-olds speedily navigate the Web to get to Nickelodeon games.See the full content of this document
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New Tech Keeps Sellers of Old Books Afloat ; 60% to 70% of Local Shop's Sales Conducted Online
Clausen and his wife, Pam, owners of Clausen Books, clearly understand that technology is changing how people read, what they read and perhaps even how deeply they absorb what they read. This is the world of "Dude, let's scan MySpace!" not "...
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