Around Cambridge these days where do you get cash for your reusable books?... besides Harvard Book Store. A number of the other bookshops are only offering store credit !

Of interest
by Camille Dodero
thebostonphoenix.com/boston/...03827946.asp

Village Books in Roslindale Square is for sale:

Annie Bauman isn't getting out of the independent bookstore business because of money. And she hasn't lost her affinity for books or reading. No, she's decided to sell the store, which she opened in May 2002, for a very simple reason.

"I'm a new mom," said the Roslindale resident. "I've been running the store and been a mom for a year. There are days when I have a baby in my arm and I'm also talking to vendors." ...

She's holding an open house at 7 p.m. on June 22 for potential purchasers - her asking price is $155,000.

Andrew, who lives nearby, says: I hope that Annie finds a buyer who will run the place as well as she has.

Ana reports from Our Nation's Capital:

In Cambridge/Boston you can't go 10 blocks without falling over a bookstore. I've searched two enormous malls down here and not found a single one. I need out of here --now.