Photo Credit: Bryant Palmer, Oh Hey Creative
We love spotlighting locally-owned Edgewater businesses. Here’s our interview with Phyllis Nelson, the General Manager of Edgewater Books.
How did you get involved in this business?
Edgewater Books is a family-run business. Our family started selling secondhand books online in 2020, after purchasing 300 boxes of books from a nonprofit where I volunteered for several years that had canceled its annual book sale fundraiser due to COVID-19. Our family has always shared a love for books and reading. My husband, Jef, used to read books like the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy to our boys before bed, and our son Alex worked in four different bookstores in Austin, Durango, and Denver, between 1997 and 2015. In 2022, we leased our space at Edgewater Public Market, and both of our sons, Alex and Jack, helped ready the store to open the week of Thanksgiving. I am the general manager with Jef and Alex helping out several days a week. Jack lives and works near Austin, Texas.
What drew you to Edgewater?
We lived in Denver in the 1970s and 1980s before moving to Austin, Texas. Our son Alex moved back to Colorado in 2001 for college and later graduate school, and he has lived in the west metro area since 2011. We bought a townhome in southwest Denver in 2019, and ran our online book business out of the basement there for two years before discovering and landing our business in Edgewater. Edgewater is a charming community; we love being near Sloan’s Lake and all the dining, shopping, and cultural institutions Edgewater and neighboring communities have to offer.
What products do you offer?
We carry a wide variety of used books in various fiction and nonfiction genres, including collectible, rare, and first edition hardcovers. We have great collections of science fiction, fantasy, mystery, history, biography, art, science, children’s, and young adult books priced fairly and competitively.
We are also offering a limited selection of greeting cards and specialty coaster sets. Soon we’ll be selling two styles of Edgewater Books t-shirts.
What makes your business unique?
Our family genuinely loves books, sharing books with others, recommending books, and talking about books. We are a small shop with a big heart and a loyalty to Jefferson County and the west metro area. Edgewater Public Market is also a fantastic and vibrant venue to call home with so many fun and unique small businesses and restaurants to experience.
Joel has been a resident of Edgewater, Colorado with his family since 2012. He is the Executive Director of local education nonprofit Edgewater Collective and Editor of the Edgewater Echo.
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