Barnes & Noble will close their Cincinnati-area store in the Waterstone Center on August 22, and expects to open a new location at Deerfield Towne Center in Mason, OH in November. A similar swap was announced recently in the Chicago area, with the West Dundee location closing, and a new store in Algonquin Commons expected to open in October. In both cases, the announcements did not indicate the size of the locations, but other recent moves have featured smaller new locations.
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LET’S PRETEND THIS NEVER HAPPENED author Jenny Lawson’s Alamo Heights, TX bookstore Nowhere opened for public browsing on July 19 (it has done curbside and online sales since 2020). The store includes a bar, which will open when San Antonio’s COVID vaccination rate reaches over 80 percent.
ABA Apologizes for Sending Paperback of Anti-Trans Book In July White Box
The American Booksellers Association received backlash online after including the paperback edition of Regnery’s Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters in the July White Box mailing, along with a promotional sales sheet. The book has been criticized as transphobic, and is the source of other controversies, including complaints from Amazon employees, two of whom resigned in protest over the company selling it. In a statement posted to Twitter Wednesday afternoon, the ABA wrote “An anti-trans book was included in our July mailing to members. This is a serious, violent incident that goes against ABA’s ends policies, values, and […]
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Barnes & Noble will close their store in Fort Wayne, ID’s Jefferson Pointe Shopping Center, where they have been an anchor tenant, on August 22. The company will open a new location in the Orchard Crossing Shopping Center in September. Australian bookseller Dymocks aims to add 25 new locations over the next three years, significant growth from their current roster of 50 outlets, CEO Mark Newman told Inside Franchise Business Executive.
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The Tattered Cover’s new downtown Denver store in the McGregor Square development will have its grand opening on Saturday. Later this summer, owners will open a dedicated children’s store in Aurora, CO.
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Once again, Barnes & Noble is replacing a lost location with a much smaller nearby store. In Ulster, NY, where the chain closed a 24,636-square-foot space in April, they have been given a permit for a new 7,656-square-foot space in the same area.