[Vision2020] Bookpeople: Big News!

[Donovan Arnold]

This is awesome news! Thanks for keeping the store in local hands. Bookpeople is a part of the unique culture of Moscow. It is important to have locally owned stores. I have been amazed at how the staff at Bookpeople are always able to walk right to a requested book and tell you about it.The big deparment stores have to type it on a computer, don't know how to spell the title, and probably never read a book cover to cover much less be able to tell you about the book you are looking to read.
 
Donovan Arnold


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From: Carl Westberg <idahovandal1 at live.com>
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Sent: Friday, November 11, 2011 5:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Bookpeople: Big News!


 
Great news, Bob.  I'll miss stopping by and visiting you, but that the store will continue as a Moscow fixture is good to hear.



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From: london at moscow.com
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:00:31 -0800
Subject: [Vision2020] Bookpeople: Big News!

 
Robert Greene, after 31 years of ownership, is proud to 
announce the sale of BookPeople of Moscow to Carol Spurling, whose millennial 
baby son was born November 11th at 11:30 PM and will be turning 
eleven years old today, and Steffen Werner. Robert Greene will maintain 
effective management of BookPeople until December 28th, 2011, eleven 
years to the date that BookPeople moved across the street to our present 
location at 521 South Main Street. In the meantime, you should all come in and 
buy a lot of books to take advantage of the great sales we have going on – you 
can do your holiday shopping early and celebrate with great glee and abandon.  
Betsy Dickow will continue to work at BookPeople with 
the new owners and manager, and she will continue to do book appraisals as well. 
Betsy is looking forward to many more years of BookPeople but she will only be 
working at the store part-time. Bob thanks her for her sixteen years of support 
and hard work!  
We’re going to let Carol Spurling, who will be the new 
manager of BookPeople, speak for herself now, but first we’d like let the 
friends and customers who have supported us these many years know how much 
they’ve meant to us. Thank you for all your help!  
Carol says, "Being an owner - or at least part-owner - 
of a great independent bookstore has been my dream since I was very 
young." 
"Bookpeople is a beloved institution in Moscow and the 
Northwest and we're honored to be entrusted with its care into the future. Kudos 
to Bob, who has kept it going for so many years while many small independent 
bookstores have struggled to survive. We want to preserve everything that makes 
Bookpeople great and establish a good relationship with its loyal customers, and 
of course look forward to putting our own stamp on the store and bringing in 
lots of new customers as well." 
"I just love to read and I look forward to sharing that 
love with our customers, and helping to expand our strong community of readers 
here on the Palouse." 

We’ll be leaving the store management position in 
good hands - Carol Spurling has been a bookseller at Old Harbor Books in Sitka, 
Alaska, and formerly managed Brused Books in Pullman for three years. She is 
also a published freelance writer. Carol has a B.A. in English from Central 
College, an M.A. in Literature from the University of Montana, and a B.A. in 
French from the University of Idaho. She is currently the outreach and ownership 
coordinator at the Moscow Food Co-op. She can be contacted at 
208-669-0763. 
Working at BookPeople is only as much fun as the 
customers who come in on a daily basis to visit, and we’d like to tell everyone 
again how much their business, support, and friendship has meant to us in the 
last 31 years! We’re sending this announcement out on the auspicious day of 
11/11/11, at 11:11 AM, to welcome you all to the start of great new beginnings 
for all parties! Thank you! Come and see us early and often!  
Sincerely, 
Bob Greene  
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