Collegeville Textbook Co. is the newest textbook store to find a home on Grand River Avenue in East Lansing.
According to excerpts from the article:
Collegeville Textbook Co. started as a pipe dream, brewed among friends at a bar.
But after years of climbing the management ladder at bookstores owned by big companies, four local textbook industry veterans set out on their own.
"We'd go out to the bar and have beers and talk about how great it'd be to have our own store," said Tom Muth, a 2003 graduate of Michigan State University.
Muth, Aaron Larvick, Adam Seyburn and Ken Kerbyson opened Collegeville Textbook last month at 321 E. Grand River Ave. — within a block of Ned's Bookstore and Student Book Store.
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