Powell's Bookstore - Store Information

Powell's Books is a chain of seven book stores located within Portland Oregon. The main bookstore, called Powell's world of books, occupies an entire city block and sprawls over about 1.6 acres or 68,000 square feet of retail space. At this size, it is no wonder that the store claims to be the largest independent new and used bookstore in the world.

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1. General information regarding the books sold here

http://www.powells.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powell%27s_Books

http://www.powells.com/info/storeinformation.html

This book store specializes in selling both new and used books and stores them side by side in the store. The online catalogue of the store shows over four million new and used books that are available for sale. The store buys over 3000 used books every day. Recently it has also started offering DVD titles through its stores with free shipping. There are currently 44,000 titles available in the inventory.

There are also rare and out of print books available for sale here. The internet wing of the book store is a separate present but is connected with the stores nonetheless.

2. History

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powell%27s_Books#History

The bookstore was started in 1971 by Walter Powell. He was then joined by his son Michael Powell and soon they expanded the business in Portland.

In 2002, the bookstore was named by the USA Today as one of t he 10 best bookstores in the country.

3. Locations

There's a technical bookstore in North Park blocks

There's a 32,000 sq. ft. children's bookstore in the west coast, located at Cedar Hills Crossing at Beaverton

There's another books store in the Hawthorne district.

There's store with cooking and garden materials near the Hawthorne district.

There are three stores in the Portland International Airport.