

"A lot of the businesses are owner-operated. "Courtyard is a really nice alternative to downtown," said Megan. The Blackshears chose Courtyard Shops, a small retail and dining development, because it felt more like a community than most other non-downtown commercial areas. Peter worked as a bargain book buyer at Borders for 12 years before the chain went out of business. Peter and Megan Blackshear have tentatively planned an August soft opening for Bookbound, which will be located in a 2,400-square-foot space at the Courtyard Shops on Plymouth Rd., Concentrate reported. The publishers are:Īnn Arbor, Mich., is getting a new independent bookstore next month. Its headquarters are in Chicago, and its distribution center is in Jackson, Tenn. Legato Publishers Group aims to build a client list of 30 to 40 publishers over the next two to three years. Excluding Buffalo Media Works, which Legato will begin distributing immediately, the "founding publishers" are current IPG clients and will be distributed by Legato beginning January 1. Legato Publishers Group, the affiliate of Perseus's Publishers Group West that was formed earlier this year and is headed by Mark Suchomel, former president of Independent Publishers Group, has signed 20 publishers as clients.
