Last year saw the successful sale of two iconic bookstores—New England Mobile Book Fair in Newton Highlands, Mass., and Politics & Prose in Washington, D.C. Now 22-year-old R.J. Julia in Madison, Ct. is putting itself on the selling block, while continuing to move forward with new innovations like an Espresso Book Machine, which it will add March 1.
In an e-mail letter to customers this morning, owner Roxanne Coady, a PW Bookseller of the Year, writes, “We think it’s also time for R.J. Julia to grow in new ways, in the care of new hands that will guide the store to take its proper place in a new world; a changing of the guard in a time of change.” Coady, who opened R.J. Julia just a month before her son was born, compares the need for the bookstore to take its place in the world with new owners to her son’s upcoming graduation from college and need to be independent.
Paz & Associates is handling the sales process.
