In recent years, online retailers and e-books have taken their tole on Kepler’s Books, a Menlo Park bookstore founded in 1955 by antiwar activist Roy Kepler. Current owner Clark Kepler has retracted his plan to shut down the business, and will instead restructure with the help of Praveen Madan, owner of San Francisco’s Booksmith.
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