Horizontal Books, an independent bookstore in Cleveland, Ohio, known for shelving books horizontally to make titles easier to read, will add a coffee shop and change its name and business model this summer, the Land reported.
Co-owners Austin Fedor and David Kallevig will call the revamped bookstore Index Coffee & Books and plan to sell coffee sourced from a variety of small roasters around the country. The shop will also undergo a renovation, with a new logo, paint job, lighting and seating in the works.
Kallevig and Fedor plan to do much of that work themselves, and Fedor spent four years as retail operations manager at Rising Star Coffee Roasters in Cleveland. The bookstore side of the business will continue to focus on overstock titles.
Fedor told the Land he thinks the concept will "set us apart quite a lot. People that are into coffee will be excited to see a bag of Madcap on the shelf that they can buy, and we'll have a lot of offerings for people that maybe aren't that into coffee, too."