January–March 2016: ABA Member Stores Opening/Sold

The first quarter of 2016 saw eight ABA member store openings and five sales of existing businesses to new owners. Among the openings are a romance bookstore, an online-only mystery store, and new branches of established bookstores.

NEW STORES

Books & Books at The Studios
533 Eaton Street
Key West, FL 33040
(305) 296-0458
booksandbookskw.com
(Affiliate location)

Half Price Books #124
1328 Butterfield Road
Downers Grove, IL 60515
(630) 705-0970
b.hpb.com
(Branch location)

HyperText Bookstore Café
107 Merrimack Street
Lowell, MA 01852
(978) 677-7191
facebook.com/HyperText-Bookstore-130173383994952/

Mysteries Unleashed
(850) 776-8752
mysteriesunleashed.com
(Online only)

Napa Bookmine @ Oxbow
Oxbow Public Market
610 & 644 1st Street
Napa, CA 94559
(707) 726-6575
napabookmine.com/napa-bookmine-oxbow

The Ripped Bodice
3806 Main Street
Culver City, CA 90232
(424) 603-4776
therippedbodicela.com
(Romance)

Savoy Bookshop & Café
10 Canal Street
Westerly, RI 02891
(401) 213-3901
banksquarebooks.com
(Branch location)

Uprising Coffee & Books
(Formerly Once Upon a Tome Bookstore; new store owned by Alyssa and Jacob Holster)
655 Washington Street
Eden, NC 27288
(336) 612-2857
facebook.com/uprisingcoffeeandbooks

NEW OWNERS

The Book Bin
New owner: Philip Wilson
Four Corner Plaza
25304 Lankford Highway
Onley, VA 23418
(757) 787-7866
bookbinva.com

BookHampton
New owner: Carolyn Brody
41 Main Street
East Hampton, NY 11937
(631) 324-4939
bookhampton.com

Maine Coast Book Shop & Café
New owner: Jeff Curtis, Sherman’s Books & Stationery Stores
158 Main Street
Damariscotta, ME 04543
(207) 563-3207
mainecoastbookshop.com

North by Northwest Books
New owner: Rachel Robertson
6334 South Highway 101 #1
Lincoln City, OR 97367
(541) 994-3087
facebook.com/NorthByNorthwestBooks

The Storybook Shoppe
New owner: Sally Sue Lavigne
41A Calhoun Streeet
Bluffton, SC 29910
(843) 757-2600
thestorybookshoppe.com

To report a bookstore opening or sale, drop us a quick e-mail and we’ll include it in our next update.