Can Independents Make It?
Monday, November 29, 2004 - 03:00 PM
For the first time since Barnes and Noble's superstores took Manhattan by storm in the mid 1990s, a big new independent bookstore is opening.
The conventional wisdom says independents can only survive if they carve out a niche (gay, women's, arts, etc). McNally Robinson, a family-owned chain with outlets in the Canadian plains provinces, wants to prove the wisdom wrong.
Tomorrow on the show, the owner, Sarah Robinson, explains why she dropped her career as a book editor and brought the family business to New York.
What do you want to ask her? Tell us!
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