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Owner Roxanne Coady announced in an emailto customers Monday morning that RJ Julia Booksellers, the Madison, CT-basedstore she founded and has owned since 1990, is looking for a buyer. Coadyexplained it's time for the store "to grow in new ways, in the care of newhands that will guide the store to take its proper place in a new world; achanging of the guard in a time of change." Founder of the BookstoreTraining Group of Paz & Associates Donna Paz Kaufman will handle the saleprocess.
Coady assured customers that the store won't close and "this is not an endfor R.J. Julia, but simply a new beginning....We are determined to see R.J.Julia survive and thrive into the future. And there is good reason to think itcan. The last few months have shown a resurgence of support and sales forindependents across the country. There is even talk of this being the beginningof a renaissance for independent bookselling." But to take advantage ofthis "renaissance," RJ Julia "needs a new steward" alongthe lines of recent ownership transfers at the Harvard Bookstore and Politics& Prose.
Coady said she plans to devote more time to her literacy foundation Read toGrow and that combating low literacy rates in the US "feels like an idealnext step in my career."
Coadyletter
Coady assured customers that the store won't close and "this is not an endfor R.J. Julia, but simply a new beginning....We are determined to see R.J.Julia survive and thrive into the future. And there is good reason to think itcan. The last few months have shown a resurgence of support and sales forindependents across the country. There is even talk of this being the beginningof a renaissance for independent bookselling." But to take advantage ofthis "renaissance," RJ Julia "needs a new steward" alongthe lines of recent ownership transfers at the Harvard Bookstore and Politics& Prose.
Coady said she plans to devote more time to her literacy foundation Read toGrow and that combating low literacy rates in the US "feels like an idealnext step in my career."
Coadyletter
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