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Apollo Booksellers can trace its origins to 1796, when the Empire conquered Nerotysia. With Imperial rule came schools; and with schools came Nerotysia’s first literate generation. A revolution in literature was unfolding, and one man saw the opportunities. Nicholas Arkin, avid reader and enthusiastic entrepreneur, seized his chance and opened Arkin Books in 1815. It was a small corner store in a rundown part of Shynx, but it was the nucleus of Apollo’s egg. The store expanded into a city-wide, and Nicholas incorporated the franchise in 1855, naming the company Arkin Booksellers, Inc.
In 1887, Nicholas Arkin died of natural causes at the ripe old age of 82, and the Arkin board of directors (which itself was made up mostly of Arkins) appointed his son Alexei as CEO. Alexei, who was a part-time author himself, started the Tree of Life program, which continues to this day. Using company funds, Tree of Life invests in small, start-up pubishers and even publishes little-known authors itself, with the aim of nourishing the lesser-known parts of the writing community. Now, Tree of Life has invested in over 100 small publishers around Nerotysia, and has published over 300 books from unknown authors, including 180 debut novels.
All in all, Arkin Booksellers flourished until the tragic 1970s. Nerotysia’s infamous post-revolution depression hit Arkin hard, and the company struggled to maintain itself and avoid bankruptcy. Finally, in 1978, Arkin folded, with all of its assets being acquired by Pupils Banking Group and later liquidated. All hope seemed lost for the Arkin legacy.
However, in 1992, a distant descendant of Nicholas Arkin decided to revive this sad old tale. Dmitri Parkovsky, struggling author and avid lover of books, decided writing itself wasn’t quite right for him. So, he founded Apollo Booksellers in the same premises as the original Arkin store, following the same principles as the legendary Nicholas Arkin. His brilliant ways of profitably lowering the costs of books made great literature available to almost anyone, and he quickly expanded and refurbished. By the end of the decade, Apollo was by far the largest bookseller in Shynx, and by 2010, it was the largest in Nerotysia.
Now, with over 1000 stores around Nerotysia and a domination of the national bookselling market, Apollo seeks to expand worldwide, to further its goal of making good literature available to anyone and everyone, because everyone deserves a good book.
Apollo Booksellers stores are designed to be both comfortable and stylish, to provide the perfect browsing and/or reading experience to every customer. Our stores feature a sleek yet cozy wood and marble design scheme, optimizing your shopping experience to be both modern and traditional. In addition, we ensure that all seats in our stores provide maximum comfort for your on-site reading experience, and our stores are always quiet. We leave no stones uncovered to make our stores as comfortable and quiet as your own home.
The mission of Apollo Booksellers is to make good literature available to all, and therefore we strive to lower prices and bring affordable bestsellers to you. All hardbacks in our stores will never cost more than 25$, and all paperbacks will never cost more than 20$. If we have to turn down a publisher to maintain this standard, then so be it. Apollo Booksellers is absolutely committed to bringing everyone affordable entertainment in what we believe to be the best form possible; the written word.
As of 2009, all Apollo stores have free WiFi, to assist in all of your online needs. We realize that this is a modern world, and the internet is becoming more and more a necessity for many. As always, we are committed to providing for the customer and this is just one of the ways we accomplish that.
Since our partnership with the fine gentlemen at CuppaCoffee, all of our stores now include a comfortable and cozy CuppaCoffee café. Books go with coffee like cookies go with milk, and so we are happy that our customers can now enjoy delicious and affordable café beverages while reading enthralling and affordable books.
We are, of course, committed to preserving the natural environment, and so in 2002 we launched Green Pages, an initiative to reduce Apollo’s impact on the environment. As part of Green Pages, we only purchases books from publishers that follow very strict environmental guidelines suggested by top environmental scientists. In order to be accepted by Apollo, publishers must use paper that is made up of at least 25% recycled fiber, to reduce the amount of trees cut down each year. In addition, publishers must actively work to maintain biodiversity and never use endangered fiber in their paper in order to be accepted by Apollo. To add to all of this, we also minimize our direct carbon footprint by working to eliminate excess documental paper and storing most things electronically, and by installing Ralnin solar panels on our stores.
Following our recent partnership with the noble businessmen at Prine Paper, we have seized the opportunity to further protect the environment. Apollo Booksellers will always accept books that at least partially use Prine Paper's synthetic paper, and we give preferential treatment to any publishers that use synthetic paper. Even if we make almost no profit from these deals, they are still worth it, for preserving our natural environment is worth more than money.
Apollo Booksellers are proud partners of the following;
Vordic Suns Private Security
CleverBulbTM Inc.
Khantari Swan Air
Prine Paper
CuppaCoffee
ADCREATE
Swilburg United Fußballklubbe
Ralnin Environmental Goods
Britannual Food Stores
Prichardstan Publishing
Apollo Booksellers operates in these locations to the extent specified;
Nerotysia - 1,300 Stores
New Roman Empire - 70,000 Stores
Atok - 300 Stores
Reino de Brazil - 90 Stores
D Land and Isles - 80 Stores
Cybus1 - 100,000 Stores
Makaivellia - 150,000 Stores
Aona - 186 Stores
Monforte - 70 Stores
Liberated Counties - 2,100 Stores
Thedas - 1,200 Stores
Stretta - 7 Stores
Sensorland - 50 Stores (250,000 Planned)
Setan - 60 Stores
Vilamoura - 25 Stores
Anollasia - 50 Stores
Nouvel Ecosse - 200 Stores
Selrahc - 100 Stores
Mikia - 50 Stores
Floribbea - 20 Stores
Low Orbit - 32 Stores
Nerod Empire - 7,000 Stores
Mountainhome - 10 Stores
Key West - 2 Stores
Land of Germany - 170 Stores
Port Du-Sud - 25 Stores
Veniceia - 20 Stores
Doglend - 100 Stores (2,000,000 Planned)
Albaie - 720 Stores
Britonisea - 1,500 Stores
Tuskamo - 25 Stores
Prichardstan - 15 Stores
Stalgora - 100 Stores (More Planned)
Apollo Booksellers is owned and controlled primarily by the Parkovsky family, specifically Dmitri Parkovsky, however it has sold shares to a number of outside individuals and corporations. Notably, Tomas Arkin, the last descendant of the Arkin family who retains the name, owns a significant portion of the company. Two major Nerotysian publishers who were given a boost by the Tree of Life program have now invested in Apollo as well.
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