While perusing their local second-hand bookshop, Paul and Kaz Morgan decided to buy the whole shed and its contents of 60,000 books.
"The postman came in once, who I knew quite well, and he said: 'What have you gone and done this for, bought a book store?'
But clever marketing on social media, combined with old-fashioned customer service, has the business going well. "You can push a button, you can push a screen and suddenly you've got a book delivered, and that is brilliant, we can't compete with that."But we can compete with the books you can't find on Amazon, the scarce books, the local history books.
Since buying the shed full of books, opening their Northam store and then a second in neighbouring Toodyay, the Morgans have developed a strong relationship with the community.
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