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aflynn@lakeplacidnews.com Marc and Sarah Galvin, owners of the Blue Line Book Exchange, posing at their other business, The Bookstore Plus in Lake Placid. (Photo provided) North Country Books owner Rob Igoe Jr. (Photo provided)
Marc and Sarah Galvin, owners of the Blue Line Book Exchange, posing at their other business, The Bookstore Plus in Lake Placid. (Photo provided)
LAKE PLACID It took 56 years for North Country Books to tell its story. Now owner Rob Igoe Jr. is writing its afterword as the business slowly closes. Blame COVID. Blame the internet. They’re both big reasons why North Country Books a wholesaler, distributor and publisher of Adirondack books, based in Utica is going out of business.
Jan 13, 2021
Marc and Sarah Galvin, owners of The Bookstore Plus, have established Blue Line Book Exchange, a new wholesale and distribution company in Lake Placid.
(Photo provided) LAKE PLACID Sarah and Marc Galvin, owners of The Bookstore Plus in Lake Placid, have established Blue Line Book Exchange to distribute an outstanding line of Adirondack literature, including guidebooks, local history, art books, fiction and nonfiction, children’s titles from board books through young adult, as well as maps, calendars, posters, note cards and more. The announcement in late October 2020 that North Country Books would close at the end of January 2021 sent dismay through the ranks of authors, publishers and retail accounts who’d come to depend on the Utica-based company to distribute books and related products with an Adirondack focus. The company, founded in 1965, had been a bridge between small specialty publishers and authors, and their markets for Adirondack-themed books, maps