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Friday, February 22, 2013

Books-a-Million Hosts Book Signing for 'North Canton: A Place in Time'

Paul Kieffer, a retired Hoover High history teacher and co-author of the North Canton Heritage Society book, will sign copies from 1 p.m.-3 p.m. Saturday

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Editor's note: The following information was provided by the North Canton Heritage Society. Paul Kieffer, co-author of the North Canton Heritage Society’s award-winning photographic book “North Canton: A Place in Time,” will be signing copies of the 2013 Updated Edition at Books-A-Million, 6751 Strip Ave., North Canton, on Saturday, February 23 from 1 p.m. until 3 p.m. Kieffer, a former North Canton Hoover High School history teacher, authored the original 2002 edition with former Heritage Society director Rebecca Ink Hall.  It was given an Award of Merit by the Ohio Association of Historical Societies and Museums (now the Ohio Local History Alliance). The updated photo book brings the history of North Canton up to 2012, and covers the …

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Friday, March 30, 2012

Independent Booksellers Stand Strong as Industry Changes

Borders and Joseph-Beth Books left the market, e-books dominate and bookstores adjust

Independent booksellers like Suzanne DeGaetano didn’t exactly do a jig when larger competitors left the market twice in the past year and a half. DeGaetano’s Cleveland Heights-based Mac’s Backs-Books on Coventry gained customers following the closures of Joseph-Beth Booksellers in Lyndhurst and Borders locations in Northeast Ohio, but the avid reader and business supporter in her couldn’t allow the co-owner to rejoice. “It’s really kind of a tragedy when a big room of books is no longer there,” she said. “We know people in the publishing industry, and it’s bad for them because a lot of people got their jobs cut. A lot of books aren’t being sold now.” Borders, once the country’s second-largest bookseller, closed last summer. (In the North …

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