Bookstores

Owner of Breathe Books in Baltimore, MD Susan Weis-Bohlen is looking for an additional business partner in order to keep the store operating but also make time for travel and teach. She will host a Town Hall meeting on August 25 to talk about the future of the store and “find an individual, or a group of people, to partner with me so that we can grow breathe books and its programs.” Breathe Books letter The Travel Bookshop in London’s Notting Hill neighborhood will close in two weeks, and has begun its going-out-of business sale. Anglotopia.net Just two years after […]

Parnassus Books, the Nashville bookstore co-owned by author Ann Patchett and Random House sales rep Karen Hayes, will be located in the city’s Greenbriar Village neighborhood, the same area where Davis-Kidd was located before it closed at the beginning of 2011. The 2,500-square foot store will open in October. “The location was great. I would rather thrive in a small space than shiver in a big space,” Patchett told the Tennessean. “David Crabtree (executive vice president of Brookside Properties, which owns the space) is so spectacular. Some people said we don’t want a bookstore. Bookstores are dead, but he got […]

Success Magazine profiled Elliott Bay Book Company as part of its “American Comebacks” series, looking at how the store has functioned since it moved from Seattle’s Pioneer Square neighborhood after 36 years there to a smaller venue in Capitol Hill. Owner Peter Aaron said he “figured he needed a 10 percent rise in sales to keep the business viable. Sales have held at a better level, up 15 to 20 percent compared to the previous year.” The store is also stocking books in categories that never sold well before, such as cozy mysteries, LGBT titles, and remainder books. Success Magazine […]