New Booksellers

The second quarter of 2015 saw 14 ABA member store openings and four sales of existing businesses to new owners. 

One year into business, Kicks Mix Bookstore in Newark, Ohio, is finding its niche as part of a burgeoning downtown community.

Once Upon a Time to celebrate Algorithm Alternative Day; Papercuts J.P. a favorite of Boston; Firestorm Café & Books reopens; Joe’s Place finds a home in Greenville

Antigone Books to celebrate Independents Week; Itinerant Literate profiled for unique approach to bookselling; Finally Found Books goes nonprofit 

Neil Van Uum, the owner of The Booksellers at Laurelwood and The Booksellers on Fountain Square, will open The Booksellers at Austin Landing in early September. The store is located in a new shopping development in Dayton, Ohio, and will feature a wide selection of children’s books and a café with a drive-through window.

Village Books marks 35 years; Book Soup turns 40; Aaron’s Books celebrates first decade; Anderson’s launches fundraiser for new store; Afterwords holds grand reopening; New Jersey bookstore owners publish local history book 

More than two years in the making, M. Judson Booksellers & Storytellers is set to open this summer in Greenville, South Carolina. The shop will feature a focused inventory, robust events programming, artisan goods, and locally sourced food and beverages.

This week, Julie Beddingfield, sister of Stefani Beddingfield, who owns Inkwood Books in Tampa, Florida, is opening the doors to a second Inkwood Books location in Haddonfield, New Jersey.

Books Inc. moves to North Berkeley; The Bookstore & Handmade Marketplace opens in Ohio; BookBar marks two years; Magic Tree Bookstore changes hands; Burry Bookstore to welcome new owner

Pannell Award winners celebrated at BEA; Battle Creek Books, An Unlikely Story open; Phoenix Books Rutland welcomes minority owner; Literary Bookpost extends offerings, hours; Purple Tree Books adds coffee shop; Explore Booksellers ramps up programming

Booksellers talk small business needs in Washington; Moravian Book Shop to add second location; Browseabout Books marks 40 years; New co-owners join Brookline Booksmith

Scrawl Books to open in Virginia; Mystery Lovers Bookshop welcomes new owners; Provincetown’s Womencrafts sold; The Book Shop celebrates 55th anniversary; A Room of One’s Own enters 40th year; Jacobsen’s marks five years; Beagle and Wolf Books & Bindery debuts; Illinois’ Afterwords Books relocates

New indie opens in eastern Illinois; Elliott Bay Café to become Little Oddfellows; river’s end welcomes cash mob; Common Good Books celebrates Poetry Month with contest winners; Thriving indies among reasons to love Missoula

R.J. Julia to celebrate 25th anniversary; Bookworks marks 30 years with loyalty program launch; Kepler’s plays host to weekly radio program; Literary Hub profiles San Francisco’s City Lights; Itinerant Literate bookmobile holds first event; South Carolina indies team to support SC Book Festival

The first quarter of 2015 saw five ABA member store openings and six sales of existing businesses to new owners.