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Your Locally-Owned Bookstore: Oblong Books and Music
by
Ross Rice
There’ll
be a little bit of a lessening of that, hopefully...there’s
too much to sift through. There’s so much out there...too
many...same in the music business; hundreds of new releases...a
week! Of which you can stock, weekly, probably less than twenty.”
Hermans still reads the publishers’ catalogs regularly, does
all the orders, and keeps up with around 45,000 items in inventory.
The man puts in the hours.
Even in these modern times of zip-zap-zowie media technology it’s
important not to underestimate the importance of the local bookstore
or the local music store. It’s still one of the few places
where all interests find a nexus point, where information and entertainment
meet in a way that diminishes neither and where a community can
find artistic and educational sustenance. Dick Hermans and Oblong
make their towns better places.
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