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A new Shakespeare & Co. location is coming to the SoNo Collection mall in South Norwalk, Conn. While CEO Dane Neller did not say when the bookstore would officially open, he did confirm the plans to The Hour.
Neller said he had hoped to open the Connecticut location in 2020, but the Covid-19 pandemic delayed his plan. "It's a beautiful new mall. Malls got pretty hurt by the pandemic but it appears that, hopefully, we are coming out the other end."
Details on the new store were scarce, but it will have an Espresso Book Machine capable of printing some seven million titles on demand. The Hour noted that the SoNo Collection mall is also home to an Amazon 4-Star store, which carries some books.
Shakespeare & Co. (no relation to the Paris bookstore of the same name) has two locations in Manhattan and one in Philadelphia, Pa. The Norwalk store will be the bookstore's first outside of a major city.