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| Joybird owners Andrew Walker and Ollie Bird at a recent pop-up (photo: Facebook) | |
Andrew Walker and Ollie Bird are set to open Joybird Books, a 1,200-square-foot general-interest bookstore, in Orlando, Fla., before the end of the month, the Orlando Sentinel reported.
While the inventory will be predominantly used books, Joybird will carry new titles from local authors and especially local independent press Burrow Press, and Bird and Walker plan to gradually expand their new book inventory after opening. They also plan to build a stage for things like open-mics and storytime sessions.
All told the store will have an opening inventory of around 15,000 titles, the majority of which came from a college library auction that Walker and Bird won earlier this year. Prior to that they had been selling books at pop-up locations around Orlando. Once they won the auction, Walker told the Sentinel, opening a bookstore "went from a dream to a very possible reality."
The store will reside at 3018 Corrine Drive in Orlando's Audubon Park neighborhood.