We’ve heard you. Life has been particularly fraught with anxiety and fear these last few years. Coming out of a terrifying and isolating pandemic accompanied by racial reckoning on par with that of the civil rights movement, only to potentially …
Category: Editorial
And Now For Our Next Act…
Nicole Sullivan – January 2022 How to even recap a year that felt like a decade? This time last year we were heading into the new year with trepidation but so many reasons to feel hopeful. A vaccine was on …
We’re Celebrating Banned Books Week by… Selling Books
“We honor your right as a reader to make your own decisions about which authors and titles you wish to consume…” On its surface, this seems like such an obvious statement, coming from a bookstore. Of course, we’ll also join …
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If You Can’t Beat ‘Em
-by Nicole Sullivan April 1, 2021 In a year that saw revenue loss for nearly all independent businesses but revenue for Amazon was up a whopping 38% – during a pandemic and the biggest economic downturn we’ve seen since 2008 …
It’s Been a Year
By Nicole Sullivan It has been two weeks short of one year since I wrote this blog post while everything was shut down. Little did any of us know then what a long and tumultuous year was ahead of us. …
Giving Thanks for all the Giving
Nicole Sullivan 11/26/2020 Can you stand another post about all of the reasons to feel grateful in such a horrid year? This isn’t the post I intended to write as I fell asleep last night, worrying about the future: the …
Happy 10th Anniversary Denver Book Exchange!
This is kinda where it all began. Ten years ago I was in the midst of a seven year stint as a stay-at-home mother to our two young children. I began craving adult collaboration and missing the satisfaction of working …
My Dear White Friends,
By Rahem Mulatu I want to come to you with my raw feelings of pain, anguish, tears, and a heavy heart. I want you to feel and see my vulnerability. I plead with you to not disregard or diminish my …
Black Booksellers Matter
This is my fourth letter in three months. I hope you don't mind that this is turning into a personal blog series. Extraordinary times call for ever greater honesty and transparency.
BookBar Turns 7: Ch-Ch-Changes (Turn and Face the Strange)
Chapter 7: Every person, business, and organization has handled this Covid situation differently. For me, roughly half-way through the shut-down and quarantine, I resolved to come out of this a better person and to make BookBar a better business.
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