Newsletter #8
Happy Spring, everyone 😊 We hope you've all weathered the recent snows safely, and that perhaps you even got outside to play in it ☃️ Our last newsletter was just three weeks ago, but we have SIX (6) new items to share so we're jumping the gun with installment #8.
1. Bookshop.org and Libro.fm. THANK YOU to all who ordered a new print book from Bookshop.org or audiobook from Libro.fm in the past year. Whether you designate us or another Denver bookshop as beneficiary of your purchases, we thank you for supporting independent booksellers through these sites.
2. Book donations and DreamBooks partnership. We recently partnered with DreamBooks, another local company that sells books primarily online. They provided us a collection cart for donation drop-offs, which will live in the hall in front of our shop. To avoid the cart growing legs and wandering off like our Roomba vacuum cleaner (RIP Dobby), we'll have the cart outside during business hours only for now. Depending on the item and our respective needs, books placed in the cart will either go to DreamBooks or go on our shelves. DreamBooks also accepts items we're not able to take such as DVDs, CDs, Video Games, Textbooks, and encyclopedias. We continue to offer trade-in store credit for good condition books we think we can sell, at our discretion. Read the trade-in policy here.
3. Shop re-shuffling.Earlier this month, we added a new bookcase, and we're in the process of shifting some sections to new or different shelves. We will subsume a few small sections into larger sections, and downsize a few genres. Our intention is to create more space for the books you want and clear out some of the less compelling material that has sat on our shelves for a long time. Among other things, you can look forward to an expanded general fiction section.
4. Online sales. Another project in the works is beginning online book sales, including the ability to search and order books we have stored off-site. Alex has been working on this for way too long, and with any luck we should be up and running some time in June.
5. Book discussions. Our next two book discussions are on the calendar, and we have copies of the selected books available for purchase:
Sunday, 4/21: The Overstory,by Richard Powers
Sunday, 5/19: Blood Child and Other Stories,by Octavia Butler
6. Independent Bookstore Day. Saturday, April 27, is Independent Bookstore Day. We'll celebrate with book trivia and some give-aways. Phyllis, Jef, and Alex will be attending a wedding in Austin that weekend (technically Bastrop - it's pretty there and there's a big lake and a state park), but our very able assistant booksellers will be running the shop and dispensing the fun.
Phyllis, Jef, and Alex