On Saturday, op.cit. Taos opened at the former location of Moby Dickens Bookshop in Taos, N.Mex., which closed last month. Pasatiempo reported that Noemi de Bodisco, owner of op.cit. books in Santa Fe and Tome on the Range in Las Vegas, is operating the new bookshop, but "due to outstanding legal issues related to the previous owners, she cannot use the name Moby Dickens at this time, but hopes to be able to in the future." Former Moby Dickens employees are being rehired.
Noting that De Bodisco had wanted to open a bookstore in Taos for many years, Pasatiempo wrote that when she heard the store had closed, she quickly responded. Although op.cit. Taos will have the same business model as her other stores, De Bodisco said "every store is different. Every store depends on the community. The first thing we'll do is get feedback from the Taos community about what's needed. We expect things to be very hectic for the first month, and on the first weekend we might be calculating sales by hand, but we really want to get the place open quickly so that people don't think it's been abandoned."
