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How to Create the Perfect Home Reading Nook
Published on December 15, 2020 by Mike Cahill
The holiday season is a perfect time to spend time with those we love and reflect on the year. It’s also an excellent time to cozy up with a blanket and lose yourself in your favorite book. But before you dive into that story, why not create a cozy, personalized space to read and unwind after a long winter’s day? Whether you live in New York City or Portland, we’ve reached out to the experts to help you transform that additional or unused space into the perfect reading nook that the whole family can enjoy for years to come. READ MORE
Downtown Sacramento bookstore remains vigilant during pandemic, looting
by: Dennis Shanahan
Posted: Jun 2, 2020 / 10:01 PM PDT / Updated: Jun 2, 2020 / 09:34 PM PDT
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KTXL) – Downtown Sacramento businesses are struggling to stay open after facing unexpected challenges in 2020, including a declining national economy and a deadly pandemic.
The latest challenge of protecting their businesses against looting might have made some business owners give up.
But for one Sacramento bookstore, they are finding the will to stay open.
“We just felt that we didn’t want to be silent today, that that was not our particular role in the community,” Heidi Rojek told FOX40. She co-owns Capital Books along with her husband Ross Rojek.
On Tuesday, after three nights of weekend protests resulted in an 8 p.m. curfew Monday manned by the National Guard, Heidi set up a window display of books that promote understanding between people of different backgrounds and races.
Pandemic Pushes California Bookstores to Find Innovative Ways to Keep Customers
By Reuters
May 8, 2020
DELIVERING BOOKS TO HOMES
Delivering the books turns out to be much cheaper and quicker than mailing them – a 20-minute drive in Sacramento delivers a book when the same package dropped in the mail or sent by a shipping company would take 10 days, Ross Rojek said. Rather than order from Amazon, which is rushing to fulfill orders during the pandemic, customers can buy a book by phone or online, and get a quick neighborhood delivery or pick it up, he said.
Customers have come to feel so involved with the store some have offered to take books around their own neighborhoods to other customers. On the floor of the store are about a half-dozen bins with the names of Sacramento neighborhoods scrawled on them, ready for delivery.
That personal involvement has helped keep many independent bookstores viable in the age of Amazon, and owners hope the innovations and connections forged during the coronavirus crisis may strengthen their place in the community going forward.
At Capital Books in downtown Sacramento, owners Ross and Heidi Rojek have moved office equipment into their front showroom, since customers can’t come in anyway, and begun personally driving books to purchasers’ homes.
Visit Sacramento Podcast: Heidi Rojek of Capital Books on Supplying Books During Pandemic
Thursday, May 7, 2020 10:00 AM by Brandon Darnell
