Book Rack to Close for Good Saturday
With e-readers and online sales becoming the new normal, owner David Ek has decided to close up shop.
Saturday will be the last day of business for local book store Book Rack on Manchester Boulevard. The store is currently selling all its inventory at 75 percent off the cover prices in an attempt to sell everything in the store by Saturday. The store has been in the plaza since 1993, and as had three owners. Current owner, David Ek, has owned the store for almost three years. Ek said book sales are down and the rent for the space recently increased. "With rent and sales going down, it was not really providing a real profit," Ek said. With many of his customers receiving e-readers for Christmas in 2010, Ek said book sales just haven't been the same even though some customers still balance their desire for traditional books and reading on …
Dawn Herrick Blase
3:50 pm on Tuesday, February 26, 2013
This will be a sad day. I have found books here that I could no longer buy anywhere else. I will miss this store. more ›