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Tsunami Books gets
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BY JOSH LINTEREUR
PULSE REPORTER
Starting with a small warehouse
and pieces of wood salvaged from
old crates and bleachers, Tsunami
Books has built itself into one of Eu
gene's most eclectic bookstores.
With roughly 25,000 titles, Tsunami
Books doesn't rival the massive se
lections of chains like Barnes & No
ble orthe locally owned Smith Family
Bookstore. But it has managed to
withstand the tough times that have
befallen other small independent
bookstores, such as downtown Eu
gene's Book Mark, which recently
announced plans to close its doors.
As Tsunami Books enters its 10th
year of business, it remains one of
Eugene's best places to find special
ty books and one of the city's most
frequent hosts of literary events and
cultural gatherings.
At 2585 Willamette St., Tsunami
Books opened in the front section of
a warehouse in fall 1995. When the
store expanded into the rear section
of the building in 1999, co-owner
Scott Landfield, a former tree
planter, constructed bookshelves
and a stage using wood salvaged
from shipping crates and high school
bleachers. He added seating using
salvaged stadium chairs from
Autzen Stadium, including a seat he
said once belonged to Phil Knight.
The store expanded again in 2003
and began housing rare collections
in the small storefront next door.
With books spanning the best in
contemporary literature to a Latin bibli
cal text dated less than two centuries
after Johannes Gutenberg introduced
movable type to the west, Tsunami gets
the most out of its inventory.
Writers like Ken Kesey and
Jack Kerouac are featured promi
nently amidst a selection Landfield
said contains "books for the
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Tsunami Books at 2585 Willamette St. offers an eclectic collec
tion of rare and specialty books.
progressive mind."
The store s selection covers all gen
res except romance and history, co
owner David Rhodes said, and its
biggest strength is its fiction offerings.
Roughly 99 percent of the stock is
used, and the limited selection of
new books, which is discounted at
10 percent, is based on what cus
tomers are asking for, he said. The
store also features 4,000 rare books
at prices averaging $50.
Over the years the store has fea
tured over 1,000 events, ranging
from Oregon Book Award readings
to a performance by local band
Mood Area 52 of its score to the
vampire film, "Nosferatu." The store
often features students and faculty
from the UO's creative writing pro
gram, School of Music, English de
partment and literary non-fiction
program in the journalism school.
They also host a range of commu
nity gatherings, typically for writing
and reading groups, like the Wordos,
a local group of writers, who meet
every Tuesday. Overall, Tsunami
hosts about four events per month,
Rhodes said.
Rhodes pointed outthatthe
store's greatest competition doesn't
come from Eugene's large selection
of bookstores.
"Compared to the Internet, they
don't affect us at all," he said.
Ironically, Tsunami's recent sales
growth originated in cyberspace.
The store recently sold an 1814
print of the Lewis and Clark's jour
nals for $40,000 on consignment.
Landfield said that while Internet
sales made up 10 percent of the
store's total sales a year ago, today
they account for 30 percent of the
store's business.
The store sells their books on the
web through Abebooks (www.abe
books.com), an online bookseller
that lists more than 13,000 book
sellers. Tsunami currently lists 7,000
of their 25,000 titles on the site.
While their Internet business has
been good, Rhodes said he hopes
that in-store business doesn't be
come a thing of the past.
"The idea is to have a neighbor
hood business where people show
up, but that whole concept is disap
pearing," he said.
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