Kepler’s Closes:
SFGate reports this morning that Kepler’s Books, a 50 year-old institution in Menlo Park (south of San Francisco) has closed its doors. I’m battling between sympathy and anger. More soon.
UPDATE: Placed a call to the NCIBA who reported in that Clark Kepler labored long and hard over this decision, not have it dawn on him sometime last night like the SFgate story makes it sound. Best I can surmise, he elected to close down now instead of watching the store bleed to death under high rents, a Silicon Valley audience who probably swears by Amazon and thhe desire to keep paing his employes a living wage. I can’t I would have done it this way but I can see the logic to his methods.