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...owner of a used bookstore, Petrovato has a different outlook on the true selling point of a book...

Author: By Michelle B. Timmerman and Xi Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Specialty Bookstores: Stories from the Square | 5/12/2010 | See Source »

Even popular philosophy books—not textbooks—fall on the cheap side. A philosophy book with a retail price of $200 may sell for $50, and very few books will sell over that price, according to Petrovato...

Author: By Michelle B. Timmerman and Xi Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Specialty Bookstores: Stories from the Square | 5/12/2010 | See Source »

...Cambridge clientele is also refreshing for Petrovato, who had been accosted by New Age fanatics at locations in Western Mass. and informed that he had had a “violent birth” and “needed to be channeled...

Author: By Michelle B. Timmerman and Xi Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Specialty Bookstores: Stories from the Square | 5/12/2010 | See Source »

...People go to bookstores often because they feel like there’s always someone to talk to...like a bartender,” Petrovato says. “In Cambridge, people are really nice—they know what they’re looking for, they’re pleasant to deal with...

Author: By Michelle B. Timmerman and Xi Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Specialty Bookstores: Stories from the Square | 5/12/2010 | See Source »

...Although Petrovato favors the calm of Cambridge, he has already set his eyes on new locations, having recently opened a store on Boston’s Newbury Street. He says he would like to open a store every four or so years, if possible, and is contemplating a store in Greenwich Village in New York...

Author: By Michelle B. Timmerman and Xi Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Specialty Bookstores: Stories from the Square | 5/12/2010 | See Source »

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