Fallen Leaf Books ~story and photos by Bob Gustin
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Owner Carey Spain. courtesy photo
26 Our Brown County • Jan./Feb. 2021
arey Spain is in it for the long run. The owner of Fallen Leaf Books in Nashville has been in the book business since the late 1970s and isn’t about to give up now. “We’ve survived Amazon for this many years. We’ve survived e-readers for this many years. We’ve survived the pandemic,” he said. And recent trends point to growth for independent bookstores. Spain, a Greenwood resident, kind of stumbled onto the Nashville store. He and his wife were visiting Nashville in 2014 when they walked past what was then The Book Loft and noticed the “bookstore for sale” sign in the window. He had owned bookstores in Oklahoma and New Jersey before moving to Indiana for his wife’s job at Eli Lilly and Company in Indianapolis, and he had been selling inventory online since the move.
