Women in Business
MARGOT FARRIS, LINDA MCLOUGHLIN FIGEL, PATTY GIBSON, SUNNI WON Co-owners {pages} a bookstore
904 Manhattan Ave. | Manhattan Beach 310-318-0900 | pagesabookstore.com
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pages} a bookstore is a place for book lovers of all ages offering a carefully curated selection of adult and children’s fiction and non-fiction, coffee table, cook and surf books. {pages} offers book clubs, author signings and children’s story times as well as a knowledgeable staff and complimentary gift wrap. Linda McLoughlin Figel, Patty Gibson and Margot Farris opened {pages} in 2010, and Sunni Won joined as a co-owner in early 2015.
What would you like potential clients to know about you?
How do you distinguish yourself from the competition?
What question or concern do you frequently hear from clients?
“As operators of a local, independent, brickand-mortar bookstore, we support and live in the community where we work. Our customers are our friends and neighbors. We may not be able compete on price with online retailers, but we provide many things they cannot. We employ local students and host author events, school poetry readings, book clubs and story times.”
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“{pages} is here for you! If we don’t have the book you’re looking for, we can usually get it for you in a day or two. Regardless of our store hours, we have an online presence 24:7. We know we wouldn’t be here without the enthusiastic and loyal patronage of our friends and community. THANK YOU for keeping us here and a bookstore in Manhattan Beach.”
“We are thanked by our clients for being here. Nobody wants to imagine a world or a town without a bookstore.”
What do you like to do for fun, when you’re not at work?
“Read!! Read!! Read!! While bookselling was new to all four owners, we’ve shared a lifetime of passion for books and reading.”
Tell us something unique about your business.
“We’re an independent bookstore in 2015. Bookstores are a rare thing today.”
Tell us about your families.
“Collectively we have nine children, five dogs, have lived in Manhattan Beach for over 75 years and have read thousands of books.”
What’s most rewarding about your work?
“We love sharing books! There is nothing better than matching the right book with the right reader and hearing about their experience. Equally rewarding is hearing about new authors and titles from our customers.”
FAST FACT
{pages} supports local schools through the Manhattan Beach Education Foundation, their Scrip Program and growing Book Fair business.
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