Tattered Cover is open seven days a week at all branches, hosts prominent book signings, and is known for its customer service.

The Cherry Creek location closed in June 2006 and moved to the newly renovated, long-defunct Lowenstein Theatre on Elizabeth Street at East Colfax Avenue in Denver.

Like many independent bookstores, Tattered Cover is a member of the American Booksellers Association, and Meskis served as president of that organization in the early 1990s.

[6] In December 2020, Vlahos and Gilligan sold the company to a group of investors led by David Back and Kwame Spearman.

[9] In 2000 the store resisted, on First Amendment grounds, a search warrant for records related to purchases made by a customer suspected of illegally manufacturing methamphetamine.