Bookseller’s $6M Boulder mansion topped region’s home sales in July
The founder of Books Are Fun is moving on to the next chapter.
Earl Kaplan and his wife Lily sold their Boulder home at 770 Circle Drive for $6.1 million last month, according to MLS, earning the top spot on BusinessDen’s July top home sales list.
Kaplan started Books Are Fun, which sells books and merchandise through temporary displays in schools and businesses, in his home in Iowa in 1990. In 1999, he sold the business to Reader’s Digest for $380 million, according to previous coverage.
In 2005, when his non-compete from the sale ended, he started Louisville-based Imagine…
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