Good Yarns closes and another bookstore’s gone
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- February
- 28
A favored Hudson Rivertowns’ bookstore, Good Yarns (named, I think, because it once sold knitting supplies along with books and conversation in the store hovered around both pastimes) has sent around this notice:
“Your neighbors at Good Yarns wish to say thanks for shopping with us! …. We appreciate your support, loyalty and kind wishes as we ready to close our doors in March. ”
The independent bookstore business is difficult indeed and this is a loss to the book loving community. The store was about 30 years old and one of a handful of independent bookstores in the lower Hudson Valley. Putnam County just lost its final remaining store, Merritt Bookstore.
Good Yarns co-owner Chris Kerr said to me during an interview in December that bookselling requires significant owner time and, as a book sales rep who sells publishers’ lists to regional stores, he can’t devote sufficient time to the store, even though he said he had a great staff.
“At best it is a break-even proposition,” he said. “Publishing is in a period of transition -there is a lot there is a lot of consolidation, the number of books sold is flat. We would have to work in the store ourselves to turn a profit, and at this point in our lives, we just can’t do that.”
(Photo by Seth Harrison for The Journal News)
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