New children's bookstore to open in California. Amazon expands pickup locations, on campus and off. And a Massachusetts bookstore faces protestors.
Amazon Opening Pickup Location Near UConn: Just days after Barnes & Noble was predicted to become the official campus retailer for the University of Connecticut (see below), Amazon announced that it will open a 4,000 sq. ft. staffed pickup location next to the UConn Storrs campus this summer. Earlier this week the e-tailer said that it would add a 2,500 sq. ft. pickup location at the University of California at Long Beach.
UConn Picks B&N: As anticipated, on Wednesday the board of trustees at the University of Connecticut made Barnes & Noble the official operator of its stores.
Bel & Bunna’s to Open Next Month: Clare McNeil is opening an 823-sq. ft. bookstore in Lafayette, Calif., former home to Storyteller Bookstore, which closed in 2015. The store, which is partially funded by a private investor, will be open by memorial Day weekend and carry books for ages 0 to 18.
Protestors Picket Porter Square Books: The Cambridge, Mass., bookstore held an event with Jean Trounstine, author of Boy with a Knife: A Story of Murder, Remorse, and a Prisoner’s Fight for Justice (Ig Publishing), about murderer Karter Kane Reed, who killed Jason Robinson in a classroom at Dartmouth High School in South Dartmouth, Mass., and was sentenced as an adult. Robinson’s sister, Shauna, was among the protestors who objected to Trounstine’s glorification of Reed.
