Bent Pages is “Page Bent” on Fostering Community and Personal Customer Relations
Right now, if your sight shifts from this article and over your phone, you will probably see fellow eyes (possibly family) glaring at their “mini computers” or tablets. With just a tiny tap, books or podcasts are downloaded instantaneously. In between the tap and the download, lack of friendly intimacy is accepted. In between a facebook comment and post, in-person connectivity is excused. There seems to be a “phone jack” disconnection from human interaction and fellowship. Although it seems like we are being wrapped up in a wireless world and its void of vivacious hand-shakes, local businesses, particularly, Bent Pages Co., is completely connected to the community. In between the “hugging” ‘Hello! What book are you looking for today?’ and checkout, hometown conversation imprint each visit and are inexcusable. “With the Indie book experience, we don’t say, ‘Go over there.’ We say, ‘What are you looking for?’ or ‘What do you like to read?’” An...
