This, our last newsletter, is dedicated to all of you – our customers and readers of this past decade. Thanks a million for all of your support, friendships, enthusiasm for our sometimes wacky ideas; for making BookBar your home away …
Category: Editorial
It was the Best of Times. It was the Worst of Times
Mostly it was the best of times but after 10 years of dedicating much of my life to BookBar, I’m ready to switch things up. No one was more surprised than I was when it started looking like BookBar would …
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Dear ABA,
I’ve learned so much from you over the years, have enjoyed your support, and am grateful for the friendships you’ve facilitated. My store wouldn’t be where it is without you. I am thrilled, heartened, and encouraged to see the strides …
Colorado Association of Libraries 2022 Julie J. Boucher Community Honor Roll Award for Promoting Intellectual Freedom
This award recognizes a Colorado individual (or group) not directly affiliated with libraries who promotes intellectual freedom. CAL cited Nicole Sullivan’s “brave response to the American Booksellers Association and staunch support of protecting the intellectual freedom of those in the …
Don’t Worry. Read Happy.
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 …
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
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. My learning curve …
Giving Thanks for all the Giving
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 state of small …
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