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What other are saying about Redbery Books

From the June 30, 2012 Northland News Center

Cable, WI (Northland's NewsCenter) - With over $20 million generated by the tourism industry in Bayfield County alone, residents of towns, like Cable, and surrounding counties, recognize its importance to the region.  "Obviously for a county, it's incredibly important. And, it's the case for Sawyer County, and Ashland County, and probably Douglas County," says James Bolen, Executive Director for the Cable Area Chamber of Commerce.  Bolen says, to be a successful destination, you have to emphasize what comes natural to the area: "The Chequamegon National Forest is 850,000 acres of public land, with rivers, and streams and trails for people to explore."

Even the art scene in the tiny town can offer big city opportunities.  "This year we have had a couple of launch parties for authors from the area [who] have had breand new books, so we've been the first public viewing of it," says Beverly Bauer, of Redbery Books.
 
From the March 28, 2011 edition of Publisher's Weekly Select:
Booksellers agree that the self-published books that sell best are books that are both professionally packaged and aggressively marketed by the author. While several bookstores contacted disclosed that they only sell books by local authors on consignment for a 90-day period, that local connection, while important, wasn't necessarily an essential factor in sales.
"The author is in advertising, and Fall from Grace doesn't have that ‘self-published' look about it," Bev Bauer, the owner of Redbery Books, in Cable, Wis., says about Kerry Casey's coming-of-age novel about five high school hockey players, which has sold 400 copies in her small store. The author lives in St. Paul, Minn., and has visited Redbery only "occasionally."
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From the August 2010 issue of Duluth - Superior Magazine:
Redbery Books is a beautiful bookstore located in a cool old building full of nooks and crannies where great books are on display.  I love bookstores where the staff really knows their stuff, and Redbery is one of those.  The staff here knows books and will help you find what you’re looking for … and things you didn’t know you were looking for.  I left with a bagful of books – it’s impossible not to find a great read here.
The other thing I loved about the store – it’s connected to a restaurant featuring wood-fired pizzas, fine wines and microbrews.  It’s like a bookstore in heaven!  If I lived closer, I’d be there every day.
Wendy Webb, author of The Tale of Hacyon Crane:
Recently at Redbery Books, Wendy says "I just returned from a great event at Redbery Books in Cable, WI. It’s a fabulous bookstore in a cool, old building that’s attached to a wonderful restaurant featuring wood-fired pizzas, fine wines and local art on the walls. What could be better than buying a bagful of books and then leafing through them over a glass of wine and a gourmet pizza? Well, one thing could be better — talking to the local book clubs about my own book! The club members asked great questions that really got me thinking about my own characters, settings and motivations. I had a fabulous time and I think everyone else did, too."  Wendy lives in the Lake Superior port city of Duluth, where she is the editor-in-chief of Duluth~Superior Magazine, a lifestyle monthly.

"A serious bookstore that likes to have fun, with selections for the whole family" according to Four Seasons, Monday, July 27, 2009:

Redbery Books, an independent bookstore that advertises "selections for the whole family," eclipses many other bookstores in the diverse features, programs, inventory and special events it proffers.  It is a compliment to this part of the northwestern Wisconsin that owner Bev Bauer decided to set up shop in this "neck of the woods." Bauer has an abiding love of books - no surprise for someone who spent a summer in South Africa in a volunteer program setting up libraries in small villages. "Literacy and connecting people to books has always been a passion of mine," she said.
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We’re in good company according to this article from Isthmus News out of Madison, WI:

The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop got me thinking about some of the famous bookstores I’ve loved browsing in—City Lights in San Francisco; the Grolier Poetry bookshop in Cambridge, Mass.; Prairie Lights in Iowa City. But just as satisfying, maybe even more satisfying in a way, is finding the very appealing shops that are, in comparison, in the middle of nowhere: Redbery Books in Cable, Wisconsin; Ocooch Books and Libations in Richland Center, for instance." (read the complete article)