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| Manager Robin Dunn flanked by booksellers Chris Abell and Fran Bravo. (photo: Wendy Winters) | |
The Capital Gazette profiles St. John's College's bookstore, Annapolis, Md., which, in keeping with the school's emphasis on the classics, sells no textbooks. The largest section in the shop is fiction, the paper wrote, "From Robert Graves to Harry Potter. There are sections devoted to science, mathematics, art, anatomy, French novels, Greek dictionaries and philosophy. One section is devoted to Shakespeare."
In his classically dry style, manager Robin Dunn explained to the paper the requirement for an author to be included for sure in the inventory of 22,985 titles: "They have to be actively dead." The store also sells school souvenirs, hoodies and mugs.
The St. John's bookstore has revenues of $350,000-$450,000 a year, and is staffed, besides Dunn, by eight part-time employees who are all St. John's students.