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Richard Retires
It won’t seem quite the same around the bookshelves since Richard Taber retired after the fourth longest tenure ever at the store––nearly 18 years. Many of you know him from his engaging manner and great sense of humor. In addition to being an avid reader and reviewer, Richard also served in a number of other roles in the store. He was one of our original used book buyers and continued in that role until his retirement. He also managed our book consignment program for a number of years until recently handing off that task. Those of us at the store will miss him. We’re sure many of you will too.
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Next on Experience NW, Footnotes with Village Books For an entire year we’ve now been producing a weekly segment on the KVOS television program, Experience NW, with host Deb Slater (see story about Deb on pg 27). Each week one of us from the store talks about books––new books, special genres, gift ideas, kids’ books or whatever strikes our fancy and we think will strike yours. The program is seen each Saturday at 5:00pm and replays on the following Monday and Wednesday mornings at 7:30am.
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A Much Better Holiday Season
A year ago we wrote about the nightmare that weather created for all businesses, including Village Books, during that previous holiday season. Thankfully, we don’t have to rerun that story. Though the first week and a half of December began very slowly and had us a bit concerned, things began kicking on the 11th and never stopped. And, although this was not the best holiday season we’ve ever had (we understand there are some economic issues out there) it was a good one and certainly topped last year by a mile. Thanks!
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VB Customers Win Philanthropy Award OK, this may be the first you’ve heard about it but, we’ve decided that YOU, our customers, deserve to be recognized for your generosity. A year ago we reported that Village Books had been recognized as the Outstanding Philanthropic Small Business in Washington. Well, we’ve decided that you are the Outstanding Philanthropic Customers of the World. Not only did you respond to an overloaded Giving Tree, but you also donated books and money to help restore the collection of the Whatcom Middle School Library (see story on pg 38). You are truly outstanding. Thank you!
Village Books is First Bookstore on West Coast to Have Espresso Book Machine In early October Village Books became the first bookstore on the West Coast to install the Espresso Book Machine, a print-on-demand machine that prints and binds books. We’re still among fewer than a dozen locations with this model machine in the entire world. Since its installation we’ve published some books under our own Chuckanut Editions imprint, printed some public domain and in-print books for folks that are available through our network, and helped some authors get their own books into print (see story on pgs 13-14). You are now able to search on our website for books that are available to print on the machine. Lindsey will also be happy to talk with you about getting your own book into print.
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