[applause] [inaudible conversations] >> next, a tour of quail ridge books and music with honor nancy olson. ms. olsen talks about difficulties of owning an independent bookstore in north carolina and the current economic climate. >> we are your quail ridge books and music in raleigh surmounted a nonfiction of all kinds. that is one of our best-selling sessions. i'm happy to say we have lots of nonfiction writers. our customers have a nice exchange of ideas. our customers -- i. just love them of course because they supported us so well all these years. not just for that, they appreciate what we are doing. they are smart of course. they are not taken to commercial books, although a kerry commercial books, i have to if i want to pay the rent and i'm happy to do that. but they are really interested in more esoteric books and the specific books of different subjects. lots of them come in. they don't need to ask for help. they know exactly where they want to go, where the new books are, but we do our best to help them find what they want and introduce them to new things. that's our job to find t

. >> next, we take a tour of quail ridge books and music with nancy olson, the owner. she talks about the difficulties of owning this in north carolina and the current economic climate. >> we are surrounded today by nonfiction of all kinds. that is one of our best-selling sections we have lots of nonfiction writers come and meet our customers and have them have a nice exchange of ideas. our customers -- i just love them, of course. they have supported us all these years. they appreciate what we are doing. they are smart, of course. they are not big into commercial books. although i carry them. i'm happy to do that. but they are really interested in the esoteric books and specific books of different subjects. lots of them just come on in. they don't need to ask about it. they know exactly where they want to go and they -- we do our best to help them find what they want. including signing the books that we would never hear about. hundreds of journalists and reviews, we have hand-picked books, every book that we put in here. that is a difference in philosophy from some of

. >> next, we take a tour of quail ridge books and music with over nancy olson and talks about the difficulties of on in -- owning an independent bookstore in north carolina in the current economic climate. >> we are here in quail ridge books and music and are surrounded by nonfiction of all kinds. that is one of our best selling sections. we have lots of nonfiction writers and our customers and had a nice exchange of ideas. our customers -- ides as love them. they supported all these years. not just for that. they appreciate what they're doing. they're smart, of course. they're not big into commercial books, although i carry commercial boats. i have to if i want to pay the rent, and i'm happy to do that. they're really interested in more esoteric books and specific books than different subjects. and lots of the interest come in. it no need to ask for help. they know exactly where they want to go. when the new books are. we do our best to help and find what they want and introduce them to new things. that is our job, to find those books that there would never hear about. we read hundreds of jou