{"id":1237,"date":"2008-12-29T13:59:16","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T20:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/12\/thats-about-a-million-books-on-those-shelves\/"},"modified":"2008-12-29T14:00:19","modified_gmt":"2008-12-29T21:00:19","slug":"thats-about-a-million-books-on-those-shelves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/29\/thats-about-a-million-books-on-those-shelves\/","title":{"rendered":"“That’s about a million books on those shelves.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

from the Washington Post<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Twice-Sold Tales<\/h1>\n

Used-Book Business Gets a Brisk, if Fragile, New Life Via Internet\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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By\u00a0Bob Thompson<\/a>\u00a0Washington Post Staff Writer,\u00a0Monday, December 29, 2008<\/font>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/font>“That’s about a million books on those shelves,” Chuck Roberts says proudly.<\/p>\n

The owner of Wonder Book and Video is standing in a 54,000-square-foot warehouse in Frederick, waving an arm toward what looks like a combination of the world’s biggest bookstore and a grungy aircraft hangar.<\/p>\n

Eight-foot metal and wooden shelves, housing the used books Roberts sells on the Internet, stretch as far as a dust-filled eye can see. Taller,\u00a0Costco<\/a>-scale units hold massive, book-filled boxes not yet unpacked. More such boxes, in jumbled heaps, spill into the floor space that remains.<\/p>\n

In 1980, when Roberts opened his first used bookstore, he built his own shelves.<\/p>\n

“I was my only employee,” he recalls. “So I’d be back there with an apron on, sawing, hammering nails — they didn’t even have screw guns back then — and when the front door would open, I’d take the apron off and go wait on the customer.”<\/p>\n

[ click to continue reading at WaPo.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from the Washington Post Twice-Sold Tales Used-Book Business Gets a Brisk, if Fragile, New Life Via Internet\u00a0 By\u00a0Bob Thompson\u00a0Washington Post Staff Writer,\u00a0Monday, December 29, 2008\u00a0 “That’s about a million books on those shelves,” Chuck Roberts says proudly. The owner of Wonder Book and Video is standing in a 54,000-square-foot warehouse in Frederick, waving an arm […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}