Struggling independent bookstore Wordsmiths Books received enough donations to stay open, at least for now, according to owner Zachary Steele.
That means being open this weekend during the AJC Decatur Book Festival, an event attracting 50,000 people, many of them prospective book shoppers.
After Steele’s plea for help was featured earlier this month by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and National Public Radio, checks arrived from 18 states and Canada, and traffic picked up at the store, Steele said. He would not say how much was donated.
How this story of financial woe ends, however, has still not been written.
“Though the signs are down from the window, our road is yet long,” Steele said in a blog on his Decatur store’s Web site.
— Helena Oliviero
AJC
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