{"id":302209,"date":"2009-08-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/book-end\/"},"modified":"2009-08-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T07:00:00","slug":"book-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/book-end\/","title":{"rendered":"final del libro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American Book Exchange is more than the name implies. It\u2019s also a nifty little piece of software, designed to lead the consumer to rare and out-of-print books with minimum effort. &#8220;It\u2019ll change your life,&#8221; one La Jolla bookseller said idly a couple years ago\u2014little did he know it and programs like it would become a key component in altering the life of Downtown San Diego as well. Wahrenbrock\u2019s Book House, formerly located at 726 Broadway Downtown, abruptly closed its doors July 31 after a 74-year run that featured a 2006 fire that destroyed nearly 25,000 books and a dwindling customer base amid Internet-sales inroads. The store also suspended its online service. Chuck Valverde Jr., son of the late owner, said the future of its 250,000-volume inventory is uncertain. Vernon Wahrenbrock opened the three-story venue in 1935. The store never quite recovered from the fire, whose aftermath kept it close nearly three months. The 109-year-old American Booksellers Association now has barely 2,000 members, down from about five times that number during World War II.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Book Exchange is more than the name implies. It\u2019s also a nifty little piece of software, designed to lead the consumer to rare and out-of-print books with minimum effort. &#8220;It\u2019ll change your life,&#8221; one La Jolla bookseller said idly a couple years ago\u2014little did he know it and programs like it would become a [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11556","_seopress_titles_title":"Book end","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11556,11551,11593,11550],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-downtown-news","category-news","category-no-images","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}