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New and used bookstore
tries to fill 'niche’ market
The campus-area branch
of the 29-year-old bookstore
has more than 300,000
books for sale on two floors
By Steven Neuman
Freelance Reporter
lust down the street from the well
known University Bookstore sits the
Smith Family Bookstore, which is
filled with almost 300,000 used and
new books.
The books don't seem to stay on
the shelves; they are everywhere, piled
high in a mountain behind the buy
back counter; sitting on tables, on
counters, in little piles all along the
aisles, and of course on shelves that
seemingly stretch upward forever.
"We really have a lot of books," said
Evon Smith, smiling sheepishly in front
of the mountain of books. She is stand
ing behind the counter at the store at
768 E. 13th Ave, just upstairs from Rain
bow Optics. Evon is the daughter of Del
and Misa Smith, who started the used
bookstore (originally on Alder Street) in
1974, and she now works at her parents'
store with her sister and mother.
What started out as a small store
with two sections — fiction, which
was the right wall, and nonfiction,
which took up the left — has now
blossomed into a multi-storied, in
dependent book haven with two
massive stores.
The second store, at 525 Willamette
St. near fifth Street Public Market, is
just as large as the first.
'The second location isn't as well
known by students," Evon Smith said.
"But the only difference is that we
don't sell textbooks there. Other than
that, we have the exact same sections."
Even if the stores have the same sec
tions, they don't have identical selec
tions. Their bookstore doesn't try to
emulate the "big-box" national book
sellers, she said, but attempts to fill
the niches that chain stores miss.
"One thing we emphasize to our
customers is that we depend on the
knowledge of our staff," she said. "We
don't use computers for that, this
store is run by people. Customers ex
pert something different nowadays —
they'll come in and ask if we have a
book and want to know immediately
if we have it."
The reliance on a knowledgeable
staff generally means a more person
alized experience for customers.
"The customer service is great here,
excellent even," said Ryan Doberstein,
a patron of the bookstore. He esti
mates that he has shopped at the
bookstore for four and a half years.
"Personally, 1 like (the 13th Avenue)
store; I think there's a bigger selection.
It feels bigger."
Both stores stock every conceivable
type of book, from car manuals to
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