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Kansas City bookstore burns its old books
Kansas City, Mo. | September 04, 2007 12:01:13 AM IST
A Kansas City, Mo., bookstore sponsored a bonfire in which hundreds of books were burned after it could not find a home for them. We hope to spark a conversation about the importance of books in the face of a marked shrinking in reading trends, and staggering waste streams of actual books, said Prospero's Books owner, Tom Wayne. Prospero's put out an announcement a few months back that it was looking for a home for thousands of books and that otherwise it would burn them, Kansas City's KCTV reported Monday. Wayne said they received thousands of e-mails and phone calls with suggestions what to do with the books, but no one would take them. With all of the public outcry, I thought more people would step up to give these books a home, said Wayne. Maybe people thought being outraged would accomplish something. We're a small used bookstore, noted Wayne, most of the ideas we've received would cost us thousands of dollars and dozens of hours, or would have us provide our inventory to organizations that compete directly with used bookstores. (UPI)
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