. >>> my name is jeff ray, president of the boards for the adobe books cooperative. i heard that last week that jack spade representative said that andrew had retired, the owner of adobe books and gave his blessing to jack spade. there is nothing more from the truth. andrew and a group of us worked on creating a worker owned cooperative. we had tut put together a business model. we thought we could be successful. we that had backing of my other business rainbow grocery, we had the backing of the communicate. -- community. the community wanted us to stay. with jack spade coming along, we could not compete with a chain. obviously they share the same office in new york. baby gap, regular gap. and to compare, there is kate spade and say that the mission is very important to us and to have a park avenue store plop down where andrew and adobe books were there for 25 years is a desecration. it's horrible. i don't understand why there is any support from local businesses. the local businesses could have a cooperative there. we had ideas for having pop uks who would have some