{"id":453,"date":"2009-02-10T07:33:45","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T14:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rickyopaterny.com\/blog\/?p=453"},"modified":"2009-02-10T07:33:45","modified_gmt":"2009-02-10T14:33:45","slug":"booksmith-beats-the-odds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/10\/booksmith-beats-the-odds\/","title":{"rendered":"Booksmith beats the odds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The San Francisco Chronicle recently ran a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2009\/01\/14\/BALP15AD5O.DTL&amp;type=business\" target=\"_blank\">story<\/a>\u00a0about the recent success of Booksmith on Haight in San Francisco.Preveen Madan and Christin Evans acquired the store in 2007,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Evans said they think of their staff as &#8220;book concierges,&#8221; gently nudging browsing shoppers toward books they might not have considered. They group books in unusual categories on shelves. A recent favorite is &#8220;Long Dead Writers &#8211; Read Them Before You Meet Them.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s something that most bookstores don&#8217;t do. And it&#8217;s not a bad thing if their edit or selection of books is strong. However, most stores depend on the books selling themselves, which, in the absence of such a selection, will never work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Francisco Chronicle recently ran a story\u00a0about the recent success of Booksmith on Haight in San Francisco.Preveen Madan and Christin Evans acquired the store in 2007, Evans said they think of their staff as &#8220;book concierges,&#8221; gently nudging browsing shoppers toward books they might not have considered. They group books in unusual categories on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1,5],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":454,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions\/454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}