OAK PARK, Ill. (WBBM NEWSRADIO) — The Book Table has been a popular store in west suburban Oak Park since 2003, but its owners now say that it’ll soon be closing its doors for good.
Rachel Weaver, the co-owner of the Book Table, said closing the store was a personal decision. Business is fine, and book stores are actually thriving.
“We’re all doing our thing,” Weaver said. “We know Amazon has taken a bunch of cream off the top; we know Barnes and Noble is starting to open up stores again in the city, but really we’ve reached a point where we know what our market share is, and we’re all pretty happily coinciding.”
Fellow co-owner Jason Smith echoed that sentiment.
“As long as you’re creating some sort of unique experience with highly curated books, and you have a staff that is there to recommend them — which is always going to be better than an online algorithm … it just doesn’t matter whatever it is that Amazon is doing.”
The Book Table expects its last day of business to be around Christmas.
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