{"id":791191,"date":"2018-12-11T17:36:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T00:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/new-bookstore-breck-books-opens-in-breckenridge\/"},"modified":"2018-12-11T17:36:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T00:36:00","slug":"new-bookstore-breck-books-opens-in-breckenridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/new-bookstore-breck-books-opens-in-breckenridge\/","title":{"rendered":"New bookstore, Breck Books, opens in Breckenridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:16px\">By  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/business\/new-bookstore-breck-books-opens-in-breckenridge\/\">Eli Pace<\/a><\/span>  A semi-retired couple is trying to make it in Breckenridge with a new bookstore, Breck Books, tucked into the Towne Square Mall shopping center at 100 N. Main St., above the Godspeed Tattoo parlor.<br \/>\nThe owners, Richard and Kim Sims, don&#8217;t plan on getting rich with their latest endeavor; that&#8217;s not really the point. Rather, they describe their decision to open a small, independent bookstore in Summit County as a &#8220;lifestyle,&#8221; in which they hope to enjoy their time together while running a business.<br \/>\n&#8220;We wouldn&#8217;t pick the book business if (making money) is what we were trying to do,&#8221; Richard Sims said with a laugh. &#8220;The point is, we were spending all of our time together in retirement \u2014 we like spending time together \u2014 and so if we can make this stay afloat, that&#8217;s the goal.&#8221;<br \/>\nWith 20 years of experience with bookstores in New Mexico, Georgia and Texas, Richard Sims knows full well the pressure online retailers like Amazon and big-box stores like Barns &amp; Noble are putting on mom-and-pop establishments.<br \/>\nBased on the research they&#8217;ve done, though, Richard and Kim Sims still believe that Breckenridge can support a bookstore that has a robust children&#8217;s section and carries new releases, time-honored <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/business\/new-bookstore-breck-books-opens-in-breckenridge\/\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Via:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/business\/new-bookstore-breck-books-opens-in-breckenridge\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"New bookstore, Breck Books, opens in Breckenridge\">Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A semi-retired couple is trying to make it in Breckenridge with a new bookstore, Breck Books, tucked into the Towne Square Mall shopping center at 100 N. Main St., above the Godspeed Tattoo parlor.<br \/>\nThe owners, Richard and Kim Sims, don&#8217;t plan on getting rich with their latest endeavor; that&#8217;s not really the point. Rather, they describe their decision to open a small, independent bookstore in Summit County as a &#8220;lifestyle,&#8221; in which they hope to enjoy their time together while running a business.<br \/>\n&#8220;We wouldn&#8217;t pick the book business if (making money) is what we were trying to do,&#8221; Richard Sims said with a laugh. &#8220;The point is, we were spending all of our time together in retirement \u2014 we like spending time together \u2014 and so if we can make this stay afloat, that&#8217;s the goal.&#8221;<br \/>\nWith 20 years of experience with bookstores in New Mexico, Georgia and Texas, Richard Sims knows full well the pressure online retailers like Amazon and big-box stores like Barns &amp; Noble are putting on mom-and-pop establishments.<br \/>\nBased on the research they&#8217;ve done, though, Richard and Kim Sims still believe that Breckenridge can support a bookstore that has a robust children&#8217;s section and carries new releases, time-honored <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/business\/new-bookstore-breck-books-opens-in-breckenridge\/\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-791191","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 09:48:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}