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finances:

• 1990 "$370,000 a-year"
• 1991 size 1,700; titles: 10,000 books, 6-person cooperative

In 1970 when Amazon was founded by Rosina Richter Christy and Julie Morse Quist, it was far from a full fledged bookstore. The books were kept in the front room of the women's collective they lived in and books were only available from 3 to 6PM or by special arrangement. This arrangement lasted for about two years before the books were moved to Minneapolis' Lesbian Resource Center. bookstore went through a number of locations. moved to a Lesbian Resource Center and

The store grew gradually over the years.

"Amazon Bookstore grew as the community grew, and as the books became available, and it was a steady growth all along. I'm not sure that sort of coincidence could happen now."

• 400 dollars worth of books in the early seventies
• 10,000 titles in 1991 (ref:ManyNewBookstores)
• 15,000 titles in 1994 (ref:FoundingMothers)
• 25,000 titles in 1999 (ref:MinneapolisBookstoreSues

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{{cite news |title= Minneapolis bookstore sues Amazon.com over name |author=first=David |last= Phelps |newspaper= Star Tribune|publisher= |location= Minneapolis|date=April 15, 1999 |page= |pages= |at= 1,8 D}}

{{cite news |title=Declaration Of Independents |first=Dan |last=Heilman |newspaper=City Pages |location=Minneapolis |date=August 22, 1990 |pages=14-15 }}

{{cite news |title= Many new bookstores, only so many customers |newspaper= Star Tribune|location=Minneapolis |date=January 14, 1991 |page= |pages= 1E, 10E }}

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• Bitch magazine 2003 article "Pushed to the Margins:The Slow Death and Possible Rebirth of the Feminist Bookstore"
• Off Our Backs 2003 article End of an Era: Will the Feminist Bookstopre Soon Be a Thing of the Past?"