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Tattered Cover Celebrates 40 Years

On Monday, Tattered Cover Book Store in Denver will begin a 40-day celebration to mark its 40^th anniversary. The celebration, which will be filled with discounts, giveaways, special offers, and events, will come to an end on Saturday, October 15, with a birthday party at each of the store’s three locations.

Every Wednesday, the store will be holding a promotion of some kind, starting with “Celebrate Local Business Day,” during which customers will receive 10 percent discount for showing a loyalty card from a local business.

On Saturdays, a certain number of “golden tickets” will be hidden throughout the store. Customers who find a ticket will receive 40 percent off their purchase.

Tattered Cover, which began as a small store with only 950 square feet of retail space and two employees in 1971, today includes three locations in the greater Denver Metro area: on Colfax Avenue, south of City Park; in Historic Lower Downtown, near Union Station; and at the Highlands Ranch town center.

During this month’s celebrations, Joyce Meskis, who has been the store’s owner since 1974, is encouraging customers to share their favorite Tattered Cover stories.

DIESEL to Return to Malibu

In mid-October, DIESEL, A Bookstore will be reopening in Malibu, according to L.A. Observed. The store’s owners, Alison Reid and John Evans finalized a lease on August 30 for a store in the Malibu Country Mart’s interior courtyard.

Reid and Evans closed the former DIESEL location in Malibu in February due to the location’s high rent and ongoing construction, but they always had plans to reopen in Malibu. DIESEL currently has locations in Oakland and Brentwood.

The new store will be roughly the size of the Brentwood location, which opened in December 2008.

Erie Book Store Changes Hands and Locations

At the same time that Kathleen Cantrell made the sad decision to close Erie Bookstore, which had been in her family for more than 50 years, Eric Turowski was preparing to leave his newspaper job in California and had a wish to move back to his Pennsylvania hometown to start a bookstore. Upon hearing the news of Cantrell’s decision, Turowski jumped right in.

Last week, Cantrell signed papers that transferred ownership to Turowski, who will run the store with his fiance, Mimi Marte, reported the Erie Times News. The store will be relocated less than a mile away from its current location in Lovell Place location to the first floor of the Erie’s Palace Business Centre.

Micawber’s Invites Booksellers to Share Their Top 50 Favorite Titles

About a month or so ago, a customer of Micawber’s Bookstore in St. Paul, Minnesota, asked owner Hans Weyandt for a list of his top 100 favorite books. This sparked an idea.

“Her question made me think about how my list would differ/be similar to other booksellers across this fine land,” explained Weyandt on the store’s blog. “So I began to call and e-mail them not knowing what the general response would be. In summary, I was shocked to hear from person after person that they were willing, and happy, to contribute.”

Beginning with his own list of 50 favorites, posted on August 31, Weyandt said he will be posting one of 50 lists each business day.

Human Chain Helps Move Pudd’nhead Books

More than 100 volunteers formed a human chain to move Pudd’nhead Books’ inventory to a new location, about three blocks away from its former storefront, in Webster Groves, Missouri, reported Patch. The event was mostly a symbolic gesture, which owner Nikki Furrer said she hoped would raise awareness of the store’s new location.

The new store is about 300 square feet larger and, because it has fewer windows, has twice the amount of wall space for bookshelves. Pudd’nhead reopened in its new location on Monday.