Clark Kepler, CEO of Kepler's Bookstore, announced he will retire via Twitter Tuesday morning.
"After 32 years of bookselling I have decided that it is time for me to make a change," Kepler told The Almanac, a local weekly paper.
Kepler said wants to see the bookstore go on without him, although the specifics of how that will happen remain undisclosed.
The bookstore was opened by his father Roy Kepler in 1955, according to the independent bookstore's website. Since then Kepler's Bookstore has become symbolic of a "" store that had the power to enable social bonds in the community. It narrowly survived financial ruin in 2005, pulling through only with the help of donations from kind-spirited people in town.
Patch will publish more details about the future of the store as they become available.
Store hours and the popular author's series will remain unchanged.
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