Destination: Books is an independent "pop-up" bookstore. Rather than being a brick-and-mortar store, we bring books to various venues. Our rotating inventory depends largely on the anticipated interests of venue attendees.
For example, since 2021 Destination: Books has been a regular attendee of the Freedom Farmer's Market at the Carter Center in Atlanta where we partner with the Carlos Museum Bookshop featuring books on organic gardening & sustainability, food culture, travel, and book culture. We've also partnered with the Wylde Center, the Atlanta-based environmental education and outreach organization.
Our popups allow readers to conveniently examine books not usually found at conventional bookstores. We have built relationships with a host of various publishers to provide books that we are proud to sell. Also, we have a point-of-sale system that allows us to process credit card sales on site.
In Store
Although Destination: Books does not have a brick and mortar store it does have an outlet in other retail stores such as the Journeyman in downtown Decatur, Georgia. We can provide books to enhance a store's scope. The Journeyman is bicycle shop and community space offering places to hang out and coffee.
Online Sales
Destination: Books also sells eclectic second-hand books through Alibris at destination.albrisstore.com. You can peruse our online catalog here.
Sales of new books are fulfilled though through Bookshop.org at bookshop.org/shop/destinationbooks. (Bookshop acts as kind of Amazon for independent bookstores with speedy fulfillment of most new books, with a percentage of sales going to indies like Destination: Books.)
A Brief History
The book shop's proprietor-moderator is Murray Browne, who is the author of The Book Shopper: A Life in Review (2009) published by Paul Dry Books of Philadelphia. (Browne is the one to blame for the odd punctuation choice.) His first pop-up was in the fall of 2019 at the Decatur Book Festival. His email is murray.browne905 AT gmail.com.
Muted Horn Communications LLC is the business entity -- licensed in the State of Georgia -- that is the owner of Destination: Books. We are also a member of the American Bookseller Association and can order directly from Ingram, the nation’s largest book distributor.
Destination: Books is always looking for new venues and partners to work with. Contact Murray to discuss.