Bookstore Notes: BAM to Omaha; Dutton’s to Close

-- Publishers Weekly, 2/25/2008 7:22:00 AM

Books-A-Million continues to slowly move beyond its base in the Southeast, announcing last week that it will open its first outlet in Nebraska later this year. BAM will open a new superstore in a development in Omaha. BAM currently has just over 200 stores in 20 states.

In Los Angeles, one of that city’s landmark independents, Dutton's Brentwood Books, will close on April 30. The news comes a little more than one year after Dutton’s closed its Beverly Hills store. Owner Doug Dutton said that he had been trying to save the Brentwood location for months, but had been unable to find a way to keep the business afloat. He added that any chance to reopen at a new location would depend on a real offer. Dutton’s was founded by Dutton’s parents in 1961.