"The first thing you see when you walk into Pages, just past the free pot of Peet's coffee, is an old black Royal typewriter. The point, or at least the hope, is that old-fashioned doesn't necessarily have to mean outdated. Everything old can be new again. Pages has a plan. In order to succeed, its owners believe they'll need to provide a sort of mom-and-pop gathering spot for book groups to convene, for teens to share poetry at open-mike nights and for toddlers to have story time too. With comfy leather chairs and 'shelf talkers' that offer book reviews from local readers, there is an immediate air of intimacy."
Joy Horowitz in the Los Angeles Times ponders survival strategies for independent bookstores.
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