Richard Garvin and Kwame Spearman, the former ceo of Tattered Cover, are opening a new independent bookstore in Uptown Denver called Denver Book Society. In 2024, Tattered Cover filed for bankruptcy, and was sold to Barnes & Noble. Spearman tells the Denver Gazette that when he was at Tattered Cover, they attempted to expand too quickly. “The business was basically on fumes as far as the amount of cash. And I had really big, really grandiose ambitions,” he said. “If I could do it all over again, I would have focused on just getting the basics right of really regaining […]
