Books for You, Colorado Springs, Colo., which features used, rare, and new books, will be closing early next year after 34 years in business. The Colorado Gazette reported that owner Gretchen Goldberg plans to retire and hopes to sell her store's stock of 68,000 books, as well as the shelving. She had hoped to find a new owner, but was unable to and decided to let her upcoming lease expire.
"I'll be out sometime in February assuming we still have stock," Goldberg said. "The goal is to sell as much of it as I can."
Calling the bookshop's closing "bittersweet," Tyler Fenske, one of two part-time staff members, said, "Big congratulations to Gretchen.... I think it's very impressive to keep a bookstore open through a pandemic, through all the changes in technology, with Amazon and everything."
Goldberg said she will miss the shop, being around the books and serving her customers, without whom she couldn't have been successful: "That's where it gets hard. That's what I'll miss--is the people."