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Mayersohn said he believes that the book store fulfills a particular need in the community that a larger chain store could not. The Harvard Book Store holds community events with prominent authors that regularly attract over 300 people...
...semi-retirement” from the technology business, Mayersohn said that he plans to make the book store a priority. He prepared to become the president of the store by traveling to major independent book stores across the country and studying their operations. He joined a booksellers’ trade association and even attended a school for booksellers. This helped in negotiations, during which Mayersohn and Kramer “shared a common vocabulary...
While acknowledging that the Internet and chain stores are stiff competition, Mayersohn said that the book store provides an “enormous amount of customer service” and that while independent stores have suffered from competition in recent years, “the pendulum is swinging back...
...added that all the people involved with the book store are thinking about how to strengthen its ties to the broader Harvard community, admitting that there is always “room for additional creativity...
Noted political author Thomas C. Frank attacked conservative control of government at a Harvard Book Store lecture last night, calling right-wing governance “failed...