Business Beat
Selling the Written Word Today
The Bookstore can write its own story about surviving the turbulent changes in the publishing industry.
Jane Stroh is passionate about books. She enjoys reading them, handling them and talking about them with other readers. It’s that enthusiasm for the written word that she abundantly shares with her customers as the owner of The Bookstore, 475 N. Main St. Stroh has managed the store since 1997. Vic and Rosamund DuJardin, the store’s original owners, founded the store a few years before 1960. Rosamund was connected to the publishing industry as a teen fiction author. Before Stroh owned the store, she joined its staff in 1985 under owners Jack and Marguerite Rice, who managed it from 1973 to 1987. Stroh bought it from Barbara and Dwight Reed, who owned it from 1987 to 1997. Stroh explained that the building which houses the store dates back …
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Celia Rodee
9:57 am on Tuesday, September 20, 2011
The Glen Ellyn Book Store and Jane Stroh (and her entire staff of Readers) are such a blessing to our community. I frequently go to the Bookstore for book recommendatons. If The Book Store doesnt have a particular book (or Cookbook) that I want, they will happily get it for me within a few days. Thank you Jane and Sue, Jenny, Margie, et al ... for helping to make Glen Ellyn a very special … more ›