Amazon Bookstore - For Sale!
I got home late and someone beat me to the punch by posting this in the livejournal twin_cities community, but it deserves to be posted here as well.
I can definitely say that I saw it coming.
Slumping sales.
Selling off their video/dvd rental collection, and so on.
I’ll miss you, Amazon.
I’d buy ya if I could afford ya.
Oldest feminist bookstore.
Super freakin’ awesome.
I’ve been going there since I was in my mid-teens and have seen the store through three different locations.
I received the following e-mail today:
Dear Amazon friends,
I want to let you all know that I have decided to leave the bookstore. I have worked at Amazon for over twenty years and have come to know many of you and cherish the connections I have made here. But it is time for a change in my life, and I want to move in different directions. I had hoped that the younger staff currently working at the store would be able to carry it on, but because of the financial condition of the store, that is not a possibility.
So we have decided to sell Amazon Bookstore. We are hoping to find a buyer/buyers within the next few months.
Amazon Bookstore has been a vital part of the Twin Cities feminist and GLBT community for over 37 years. In recent years, Amazon has also functioned as a neighborhood bookstore, providing a focal point for literary and progressive books and events. We are hoping that there will be an individual or a group of individuals that want to carry on the vision of the store or recreate it into a vision of their own.
Please email me at the store, barb@amazonbookstorecoop.com for a copy of our sale proposal and with any questions you might have.
It has been a great privilege to have worked at Amazon Bookstore for so long, and I feel very grateful to all of you for the support you have shown the store over the years. I hope in the upcoming months that I get to see many of you to express my gratitude personally.
Barb Wieser
General Manager
Amazon Bookstore Cooperative
