Barnes & Noble to buy Tattered Cover for $1.8M and keep Denver bookstore's name

DENVER — Denver’s Tattered Cover may no longer be an independent bookstore soon.

Barnes & Noble, one of the country's largest booksellers, plans to buy Tattered Cover for more than $1.8 million, according to court filings Monday. 

Once the sale closes, it will be the end of its indie bookstore era, though the Denver institution will still keep its name, according to the deal. Barnes & Noble is expected to keep all of Tattered Cover's locations open.

Tattered Cover has locations in Aurora, Littleton, Denver's Union Station and Colfax Avenue. It also licenses its name to shops at Denver International Airport.

> Read the full story from the Denver Gazette.

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