“Bookstore Bob” Leaves the Building

Bob Somers will sell his last book this week. But even as he greets retirement after 28 years on the job, the guy who says he wakes as if “shot from a cannon,” the guy around which an energetic marketing caricature has been built, the guy who powered through one of the biggest sales months in store history following last year’s March Madness, shows absolutely no signs of slowing down.

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