{"id":6135,"date":"2015-02-16T17:53:18","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T22:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6135"},"modified":"2015-02-16T17:53:18","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T22:53:18","slug":"bookstores-finding-small-spaces-to-survive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6135","title":{"rendered":"Bookstores Finding Small Spaces to Survive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Borders and other large bookstores have closed over the past several years, leaving some towns without a local bookseller. Some business owners are trying out smaller spaces as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/pw\/by-topic\/industry-news\/bookselling\/article\/65607-filling-the-void.html\">sustainable business model<\/a> for their brick-and-mortar stores.<\/p>\n<p>Judith Rosen reports, <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This 1,200 sq. ft. store in Beverly, Cabot Street Books &#038; Cards, which opens in May, will also be paired with an Atomic Cafe. \u201cWe\u2019re trying to get the model right,\u201d said Hugo. \u201cI\u2019m hoping we can do more of these. The stock is managed better because booksellers touch it and feel it within 10 ft. of their desk. The trick is traffic.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Borders and other large bookstores have closed over the past several years, leaving some towns without a local bookseller. Some business owners are trying out smaller spaces as a sustainable business model for their brick-and-mortar stores. Judith Rosen reports, This 1,200 sq. ft. store in Beverly, Cabot Street Books &#038; Cards, which opens in May, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6135\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bookstores Finding Small Spaces to Survive<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookselling"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}