Twenty years after first opening an independent bookstore in East Cobb, the owners of the Bookmiser Roswell store are closing it.
Owners Jim and Annell Gerson announced Tuesday that they’re closing the store at 4651 Sandy Plains Road by the end of September, and that a liquidation sale has begun for everything, including books, books on CD, fixtures and accessories.
Most items will be an additional 20 percent off during the liquidation. A specific closing date hasn’t been announced.
Their other Bookmiser store, at 3822 Roswell Road, at the intersection of Robinson Road East, is remaining open.
No more trades will be accepted at the Roswell store, which will keep its usual store hours as it prepares to close: Sunday 12-5; Mon-Fri 10-7; Sat 10-6.
Here’s more in a message sent out last night to Bookmiser customers:
Thank you all for making the Roswell location one of longest running bookstore locations in the state of Georgia.
Discounting of our inventory at the Roswell location will begin immediately, so please stop by for the extra savings. Early bird gets the worm, so stop by soon and often to take advantage of our discounts. Trade credit will still apply on any used merchandise purchased at either location.
The liquidation process does not lend itself to placing books “on hold” or searching for specific titles, so come on by and enjoy the search.
We hope all our Roswell customers will frequent our East Cobb store in the future. We will continue our off-site author events, and book clubs will meet at our East Cobb location.
Bookmiser opened in 1998, as retail brick-and-mortar book chains began faltering. The Borders location at The Avenue East Cobb closed in 2011 as the chain was liquidated. There also was a Bookstar store (part of Barnes & Noble) at the Providence Square Shopping Center in the 1990s.
Other indie book stores have come into East Cobb since then: Book Exchange on Canton Road, Once and Again Books on Shallowford Road and a Book Nook at 1547 Roswell Road.
They also have a buying and trading program, as does Half Price Books, a national chain that opened in East Cobb at Woodlawn Square on Johnson Ferry Road in 2016.
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