Books Outside the Big Box
Pittsburgh — At the time Dan Iddings opened the doors of Classic Lines Bookstore in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood last year, his greatest fear was that the technologies that ate up some of his largest competitors would swallow his business whole. “I had this fear that I would be the Amazon showroom — that people would look at our selection of products, then go buy them on Amazon,” he said. Six months in, Iddings said he has...