Just Plain Awesome: Bay Area Store Owner Launches Bookstore On Wheels
General Love, Headlines, Random Cool Things Thursday, July 29th, 2010Dave Simpson, owner of Lafeyette Book Store, isn’t going down without a fight. Despite all of the gloomy forecasts for brick and mortar stores (and the loss of his lease due to sky-high rent prices), Simpson is continuing to share his love of the printed word with California residents. Yesterday, he resurrected the former Lafeyette Book Store as the “Bay Area Book Mobile.” From the website:
Closing our brick-and-mortar store doesn’t mean we’re out of business! Welcome to the Bay Area Bookmobile–our “Independent Bookstore on Wheels.” We’ll be popping up at farmers markets and festivals and schools and book clubs and wherever we’re invited all over the Bay Area, selling a selection of new or used books, customized for each appearance.
“Big Blue” is a bookmobile that was decommissioned from the Ypsilanti (Michigan) District Library and was acquired and driven to the Bay Area from Lansing, Michigan by Dave Simpson the week of June 20, 2010.
For more info about The Bay Area Bookmobile or to see where we’re going to pop-up next, follow us on our facebook page (just search for “The Bay Area Bookmobile”).
What do you think? Will mobile bookstores be the next big thing? Leave us a comment and let us know!
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