Overview
Powell's may not be the big dog when it comes to books, but its dog-eared volumes keep it near the front of the pack. The book retailer maintains more than a handful of stores in the Portland, Oregon, area including its flagship City of Books store, which covers a city block and contains more than 1 million volumes. It sells new, used, out-of-print, and rare books; it even sells books that are returned to online bookseller Amazon.com. The company
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Read More operates specialty stores for cookbooks and gardening, technical books, and travel books; it also features author readings and book discussion groups and sells books online. President Michael Powell, whose father, Walter, opened City of Books in 1971, owns the firm. Unlike most chain and online book retailers, Powell's sells more used than new books and its Web site (accounting for some 40% of total sales) offers more than 1.5 million books, including a "Rare Book Room" with first editions. Powell's supplies used books to online bookselling giant Amazon.com, buying about 3,000 used books from walk-in customers each day to maintain its inventory, which is housed in five warehouses.
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Read More operates specialty stores for cookbooks and gardening, technical books, and travel books; it also features author readings and book discussion groups and sells books online. President Michael Powell, whose father, Walter, opened City of Books in 1971, owns the firm. Unlike most chain and online book retailers, Powell's sells more used than new books and its Web site (accounting for some 40% of total sales) offers more than 1.5 million books, including a "Rare Book Room" with first editions. Powell's supplies used books to online bookselling giant Amazon.com, buying about 3,000 used books from walk-in customers each day to maintain its inventory, which is housed in five warehouses.
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