The Strand Bookstore in New York announces record sales over
the Christmas period with the Monday before Christmas registering the biggest
sales in its 86 year history.
The Strand is The New York Bookstore and is run by the
legendary and good friend Fred Bass and his daughter Nancy. They sell books; used,
new, remaindered, high ticket and antiquarian and low priced bargains. It is an
emporium of bookselling which has often featured in films, TV and been cited by
many.
Today with the well reported troubles of its neighbours at
Barnes and Nobles and the often desperate noises from High Street bookstores
around the world you would be forgiven to thinking that the physical book is
dead and the bookshop is past its sell by date. However booksellers like Fred
Bass will continue to make the book appealing to buyers and the experience
rewarding.
The news got the octogenarian bookseller on Channels 5 Fox and CBS are rumoured to be starting a Fred-a-Thon (watch this space).
The picture is of Fred Bass and my wife and owner of Bibliophile
. Fred and Annie go back some 30 years and he used to own a share in Bibliophile.related coverage: New York Daily
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