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| The Bookery Cincy coming soon. | |
The Bookery Cincy will be opening later this month at 3704 Eastern Ave. in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Business Courier reported that co-owners David and Sierra Hollabaugh have been operating an online bookstore, and plan to launch the bricks-and-mortar location in the Columbia Tusculum neighborhood as soon as October 15.
The genesis of the Bookery began when Sierra Hollabaugh, a former English teacher at Dater High School and underwriter with Great American Insurance Group, "decided to take a step back from the corporate world in September 2021 amid the Covid-19 pandemic," the Business Courier wrote. "It was during that time she discovered the world of 'Bookstagram,' a subsection of social media platform Instagram where people would create accounts devoted entirely to talking about books: sharing book reviews, photos of books and collections, and giving book recommendations."
"I've been an avid reader my whole life: my mom read to me and I always loved it," she said. "I met some local Cincinnati readers (through Bookstagram) and we formed a book club. It's been really nice connecting with people in the community who I would probably never meet if it were not for that book platform."
It was this sense of community that inspired her and David Hollabaugh, a product manager at Kroger and veteran of Cincinnati's tech scene, to launch the Bookery Cincy as an online platform for recommending books as well as selling them. When they discovered that people kept coming back, the idea of expanding to a physical storefront to expand was born.
In a Facebook post last Thursday, the co-owners shared their enthusiasm for the new venture: "Eeeeek we can't wait to share our store with you! Two weeks to go!"