John Henry lets his inner bookworm out, will invest in the Harvard Book Store

Harvard Book Store owners Jeff Mayersohn and Linda Seamonson told customers contiguous that Red Sox and Globe proprietor John Henry "will beryllium making a bid of investments" successful the Harvard Square institution.

Needless to say, we are precise excited astir this partnership, which volition beryllium transformative for our business.

John primitively reached retired to america during a precise debased constituent successful the pandemic, having work astir the fiscal challenges our store was facing, and offered to help. While implicit the past fewer months our fiscal concern has improved - acknowledgment to our customers, our marvelous staff, our landlords Harvard Real Estate, and immoderate precise generous authorities programs - the semipermanent sustainability of Harvard Book Store remained uncertain. And so, our conversations with John person evolved from simply preserving the concern successful the short-term, to processing a imaginativeness for however we mightiness enactment unneurotic to amended service our assemblage of readers and writers for decades to come.

In the contiguous future, we volition embark connected a bid of renovation projects for our store astatine 1256 Mass Ave successful Cambridge and enhancements to the browsing and e-commerce acquisition astatine harvard.com. All of these volition marque Harvard Book Store a amended spot to enactment and a amended spot to shop. Beyond these contiguous projects, we are processing different plans, each successful precise aboriginal stages, that volition service the literate assemblage successful breathtaking ways. We look guardant to sharing much with you arsenic these projects progress.

They added that John and Lina Henry are not lone committed to the Boston country but to autarkic bookstores. The 2 " are insistent that Harvard Book Store support its indie identity, which has defined it for astir ninety years."

H/t Derek.