{"id":264006,"date":"2008-08-19T12:35:21","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T12:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2008\/08\/19\/wordsworth-books-update\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:29:55","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:29:55","slug":"wordsworth-books-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2008\/08\/19\/wordsworth-books-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Wordsworth Books Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/edwardn.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/georgia-bookseller-raises-25000-to-save.html\">Edward Nawotka<\/a> has an update on Wordsworth Books, the Decatur, Ga. bookstore that tried to raise $25,000 to stay afloat, and was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/index.php?id=1193\">poorly profiled by NPR:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The two-week blitz enabled Wordsworth to raise nearly $25,000, taking itself out of immediate danger. \u201cWe came very close to our fundraising goal,\u201d said owner Zachary Steele. [. . .]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe signs are out of the windows and I\u2019m filled with hope, but there\u2019s still a lot of work for me to do,\u201d Steele said, indicating that the $25,000 still doesn\u2019t erase the store\u2019s total debt burden and in the coming months he will be seeking additional investors, including one willing to come in as a full business partner.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Also, following up on the above linked post about nonprofit bookstores, I accidentally left <a href=\"http:\/\/www.housingworks.org\/bookstore\/\">Housing Works<\/a> off my list of important nonprofits. As <a href=\"http:\/\/nnyhav.blogspot.com\/\">nnyhav<\/a> pointed out in the comments, this is a nonprofit bookstore with the mission of &#8220;ending the twin crises of <span class=\"caps\">AIDS<\/span> and homelessness.&#8221; Not all nonprofit bookstores have to be devoted to literary causes . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edward Nawotka has an update on Wordsworth Books, the Decatur, Ga. bookstore that tried to raise $25,000 to stay afloat, and was poorly profiled by NPR: The two-week blitz enabled Wordsworth to raise nearly $25,000, taking itself out of immediate danger. \u201cWe came very close to our fundraising goal,\u201d said owner Zachary Steele. [. . [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[1836,14126,14116],"class_list":["post-264006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-cwp","tag-nonprofit-bookstores","tag-wordsworth"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":357166,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264006\/revisions\/357166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}