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Last year, bookseller Frank P. Kramer sold Harvard Book Store, which his father founded in the 1930s...
Secretary General of Amnesty International Irene Z. Khan said at the Harvard Book Store yesterday that poverty should be considered a serious human rights violation, rather than simply an economic status, a view that she said goes against traditional perceptions of poverty...
...Slate brothers prepare for retirement, they said they hope to find a new owner for the store who will continue in their footsteps...
...true you own a bookstore? Yeah. I'm part proprietor of a small used-book store in Maine. I don't really own the building. I guess I sort of own the books until someone comes along and buys them. I'm like the junior partner in a very funky clubhouse of a used-book store. It's something that makes me very happy...
...cites handbag maker Coach as a firm that fell to earth trying to bridge market segments. Since the 1970s, Coach had been known as a luxury brand with a status more like Louis Vuitton's or Hermès'. But from 2004 to early 2008, the company opened 94 new stores and dozens of outlet shops. By the end of 2007, same-store sales were dipping for the first time in years. Says the author: "Convenience acts like antimatter to aura and identity." Likewise, Motorola took its sleek, fashionable $400 Razr cell phone and flooded the market with...