In a video posted to YouTube, Greenlight Bookstore owner Jessica Stockton Bagnulo announced that the Flatbush Avenue location will close on May 14. Bagnulo explains that the location is not “making enough sales to cover the costs of operating it,” and that the company’s other locations can no longer support it. Some booksellers will be “moving on,” and management is working with the union to make that process “as equitable and transparent as we can.” Bagnulo is quick to explain that the closure is not due to Amazon’s destructive influence on brick-and-mortar stores, a decline in book sales overall (“[people] […]
