Tag: Independent Bookstore
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Metro Moves: As Petals & Pages will close due to financial reasons, another indie bookstore set to open
Welcome to the Denver Gazette’s Metro Moves. You’ll get the latest metro Denver openings, closings, hiring and promotion news here. To submit your company’s news, drop an email to [email protected]. Popular queer bookstore to close next month Petals & Pages, an independent bookstore and flower shop with a focus on LGBTQ+ literature, announced it will close…
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Court approves Denver’s Tattered Cover sale to Barnes & Noble, sealing $1.8M deal
Tattered Cover, Denver’s storied independent bookstore for half a century, is set to be owned by the largest corporate bookstore chain in the U.S. A federal judge on Tuesday approved the sale of Tattered Cover to Barnes & Noble for more than $1.8 million in cash to pay off the store’s debts, kickstarting the process…
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Timeline of Tattered Cover’s indie origins to Barnes & Noble acquisition
Tattered Cover has been a beloved independent bookstore for more than half a century in Denver. But like many other brick-and-mortar bookstores trying to survive the rise of the online bookseller that evolved into the e-commerce giant Amazon, Tattered Cover has been battling financial struggles. Especially when the pandemic hit. But after new leadership failed…
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Why does Barnes & Noble want Denver’s Tattered Cover? Its CEO explains
The U.S. bookselling chain’s CEO James Daunt discussed how he wanted to “rescue” Colorado’s beloved indie store.
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Barnes & Noble to buy Tattered Cover for $1.8M and keep Denver bookstore’s name
It marks the end of the iconic bookstore’s legacy of being independently-owned.
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Barnes & Noble asks court for updates on Tattered Cover’s bankruptcy
It comes days after reports that the national retailer was interested in Denver’s iconic indie bookstore.
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How Tattered Cover plans to survive
The new webpage gets straight to the point. “Tattered Cover is NOT going out of business!” Yes, some locations are closing, but the ones remaining open are business as usual. Events are being rescheduled, locations at the Denver International Airport are humming along, and new inventory is flowing in again. When news broke that the…