Early next year, Lexi Beach plans to open the Astoria Bookshop in Astoria in Queens in New York City, the Daily News reported, observing, "It will be the only independent bookstore in Queens to sell mainstream titles."
Beach "manages accounts for a website that sells digital audiobooks" and is arranging author events to promote the store in advance of opening. "I'm confident that a good portion of the community will be very excited about having a place to buy books locally," Beach told the paper. "Obviously, anyone with a computer or smartphone can buy books online, but there's something about a bookstore, a physical place to go and browse books, that is special."
And Faye Skandalakis, who opened the Story Nook in February in a small section of babyNOIR, an Astoria children's boutique, said she hopes to open a children's bookstore "within a year or so."
