Petoskey home to better book culture than Ann Arbor?

Ann Arbor was home base for one of the biggest bookstore chains, Borders, but this column lets out the secret that Petoskey might be an even more book-friendly town nowadays.

Excerpt: Pohrt warns, with a laugh, that opening a bookstore is like setting up shop "on the boulevard of broken dreams." More seriously, and out of respect for his "brother and sister booksellers," he says that "people need to know how hard this is and what’s at stake."

Taylor says Petoskey now easily outclasses Ann Arbor as a book-buyer’s town.

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Source: Ann Arbor Chronicle
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