“We are, I think, in the same way as Barnes & Noble, a manifestation of who we are and what we believe in, and what we think a bookstore should be,” adds Weich. “When you operate 1,000 stores around the country, you think with a different criteria. We can be more nimble, more personable, because we are smaller and are closer to the action that way.”
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“We are, I think, in the same way as Barnes & Noble, a manifestation of who we are and what we believe in, and what we think a bookstore should be,” adds Weich. “When you operate 1,000 stores around the country, you think with a different criteria. We can be more nimble, more personable, because we are smaller and are closer to the action that way.”