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Thursday, December 15th, 2005
Kepler’s Fifth Board Member
Kepler’s has yet to name the fifth member of its Board of Directors. In a letter to the editor of the San Jose Mercury on September 21, I called for Kepler’s to name a local author to the board:
Monday’s announcement of a patron’s circle of investors and a board of directors in the effort [...]
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Thursday, December 15th, 2005
Kepler’s Holiday Picks—Where’s the fiction?
Kepler’s has a nice little pamphlet with its holiday gift picks. However, a wildly disproportionate number of these picks are nonfiction or popular fiction. With literary fiction making up less than 4% of the books sold in this country, it the responsibility of pushing fiction titles falls squarely on the shoulders on independent bookstores. There [...]
