Canadian chain Indigo goes small; a Tustin, Calif., bookstore prepares to shutter; Amazon gets taxed in Colorado; and more.
Openings & Closings
Indigo to Return to Downtown Vancouver: After closing its flagship location in June, the Canadian mega-chain will reopen with an “Indigospirit” store later this month. The store's smaller footprint is intended to “set the standard” for more small-format stores going forward.
Once Upon a Storybook to Close: Owner Susie Alexander will close the year-old Tustin, Calif., children’s bookstore, which did not meet her projections, at the end of March.
Jacobsen’s Books & More in Hillsboro, Ore., to Close: After five and a half years, Tina Jacobsen is closing the bookstore, which stocked new and used titles, next month.
Other News
Amazon to Collect Sales Tax in Colorado: Although it doesn’t have a distribution center or a store in the state, Amazon will begin collecting sales tax on February 1. Denver Business Journal questions whether it’s because of the retailer’s March 2015 purchase of 2lemetry, a tech company in Denver.
Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe Moves Across the Street: Late last month the five-year-old bookstore, one of the few poetry bookstores in the U.S., moved to a new slightly larger location in Boulder, Colo.
Phil Davies Named ABA IndieCommerce Director: As of this week, ABA has a new IndieComerce head. Phil Davies grew up in Santa Barbara, where his parents owned the Earthling Bookshop, which closed in 1998. He founded a business that developed and managed an online antiques and collectibles marketplace of independent sellers.
Word Up Publishes Autobiographical Kids’ Book: It took a while, but the Northern Manhattan bookstore made good on one of its 2012 Indiegogo campaign perks, an autobiography of the bookstore. Late last month it published Home at Word Up/En casa en Word Up. The official launch will take place in February.
B&N Unlikely to Replace Walnut Creek, Calif., Store: Last June when the chain announced that it would close the 21-year-old store at year’s end, it also said that it was scouting a new location. Jay Hoyter, the city’s Chamber of Commerce CEO, doubts that Barnes & Noble will be able to find an affordable 30,000 sq. ft. location in the Walnut Creek market.
Northshire Bookstore Begins Year-Long Celebration of Its 40th: The bookstore, with branches in Manchester Center, Vt., and Saratoga Springs, N.Y., kicked off its anniversary with a T-Shirt Design Contest, which closes on January 31.
