- 2013 May 24
Raleigh Gets Bookstore
The story of So & So Books.
- 2013 May 23
BAM Moves Into Old Borders Locations
Books-A-Million, one of the nation’s leading book retailers, has opened two stores in southeast Michigan in recent months and plans an aggressive search for more brick-and-mortar properties.
- 2013 May 21
Waterstones Management Restructure
Waterstones has begun a company-wide consultation with around 560 management-level staff as it prepares for a restructure set to put more emphasis on traditional shop floor bookselling.
- 2013 May 20
Sarah McNally's Unique Business Approach
Entrepreneur bucks book-selling downturn, opens second business in New York City.
- 2013 May 16
Radioshack Wants Shelf Space
In college bookstores.
- 2013 May 15
NJ Bookstore Wins Hosseini Competition
Words Bookstore is the winner of a nationwide window display competition to win a visit by Khaled Hosseini, who will visit the bookstore this fall for a special event to promote his new book, And the Mountains Echoed.
Why Bookstores Don't Reflect Lit Health
“Bookstores can no longer live on every corner, because corners are expensive,” said Mitchell Kaplan. “It’s also that people are getting their books from different places.”
- 2013 May 13
Small College Bookstores Pinched
"The Huston-Tillotson bookstore will temporarily close its doors and clear its shelves in a few weeks while the university searches for a new vendor to run it."
- 2013 May 09
Best Indie Bookstores
Hilary Davidson tours North America and picks her favorites.
How to Shop at a Bookstore
A 20-step guide for authors.
- 2013 May 08
Bookstores' Pricing Hell
Over Dan Brown's "Inferno."
The Book Nook Closes
A business that has been a staple in this region for 45 years is closing the book on its service to the community at the end of this month.
- 2013 May 03
10 Weird Things Said in Bookstores
"Excuse me, do you have any signed copies of Shakespeare plays?"
- 2013 May 02
Vintage Books in Hopkington Closes
After 25 years, Vintage Books, one of the region's few antiquarian bookstores, will close its doors around September.
- 2013 Apr 30
Half Price Books Closes in Irving
"There was a spike in sales after the two Barnes & Noble stores closed, but not enough to make a big difference," Thomas said. "The demographics aren’t there for book sellers,"
- 2013 Apr 24
South Station Bookstore Shuttered
Barbara’s Bestsellers, the small, independent book stall at Boston’s South Station, has closed.
- 2013 Apr 23
In a Future with One Last Bookstore
A boy falls in love with reading.
Brooklyn's New Bookstores
Dominate TimeOut NY's list.
- 2013 Apr 18
Maine Children's Bookstore Going Strong
A profile of The Children's Book Cellar in Waterville, Maine.
Jersey Shore Bookshop Closes
The town's only bookstore will be closing on April 30 after more than 20 years in business.
- 2013 Apr 17
Why Dymocks Chief is Up on Bookstores
Steve Cox says Dymocks isn’t retreating. It’s opening more stores this year, on top of several it opened in late 2012. The company has 74 stores in Australia along with 12 in Hong Kong.
- 2013 Apr 16
Doctor Buys Children's Bookstore
Dr. John Hutton splits his time between his medical career and running The Blue Manatee Bookstore for kids in Oakley, Cincinnati.
- 2013 Apr 08
Inside Mellow Pages
"Lucas Pinheiro and Magda Mortner entered the Mellow Pages Library in Brooklyn on Saturday afternoon, greeted the others there, and began to look at some of the library’s inventory of 1,300 books, many of them from obscure presses or by little-known writers."
- 2013 Apr 05
Bookstore Employee Steals $98k
A Cleveland woman who worked at the Lorain County Community College bookstore pleaded guilty to theft, after pocketing $98,000 by selling books belonging to the college to online businesses and bookstores.
- 2013 Mar 27
Bookstore Fraud Admitted
At Missouri State University bookstore.
- 2013 Mar 25
Swampscott Bookstore Closes
HugoBooks Inc. closed its Spirit of ’76 Squared bookstore in Vinnin Square on March 17 after a one-year trial period, according to a notice on the door.
- 2013 Mar 22
Bookshop Browsing Vital for Publishing?
Research says so.
- 2013 Mar 18
The Resurgence of Indie Bookstores
Defying the onslaught of the e-book revolution, many small bookshops see a rise in sales, aided by savvy business practices and the 'buy local' movement.
- 2013 Mar 15
New Indie Bookstore Promotions
Following on the success of last year’s holiday season multi-publisher promotion, Thanks for Shopping Indie, four new promotions created just for independent bookstores are launching this spring under the banner “Celebrate (With) Indies.”
- 2013 Mar 14
Word Up Targets Spring Reopen
Word Up Community Book Shop, an all-volunteer bookstore that closed its doors last summer, is closing in on a Washington Heights location with the hope of reopening before the end of the spring.
- 2013 Mar 13
Two Penn. Indies Close
Book Swap in Edwardsville and its sister store in Scranton are closing at the end of the month.
- 2013 Mar 12
A Bookstore Weathers the Digital Age
Elizabeth Bluemle reflects on the struggles and joys of running the Flying Pig Bookstore.
Waterstones Offers Book Bonus Materials
Waterstones are exclusively selling books with extra chapters and 'bonus materials' in an attempt to compete with rival online retailers.
- 2013 Mar 11
Lafayette's Newest Bookstore
Echoes in Ink combines the old with the new.
- 2013 Mar 07
Couple Ties Knot at Bookstore
Welcome to the Annapolis Bookstore wedding of Mark Hutson and Melanie Frances, a couple who on Wednesday proved neither rain, snow nor a government shutdown could prevent them from uniting in holy matrimony.
- 2013 Mar 06
Man Runs Free Bookstore
For four years running, the Jersey City Free Books store on Griffith Street in the Heights has been Anthony Olszewski’s labor of love.
Bookstore Cat's Happy Ending
The story of Footnote the cat.
- 2013 Feb 14
Blizzard Destroys Longfellow's Stock
One of the last independent bookstores in Portland, Maine, is getting an outpouring of support in recovering from heavy damage from the blizzard of 2013.
- 2013 Feb 13
Ann Arbor Booksellers Give Advice
“I think they’re doomed,” says Bill Gilmore, owner of Dawn Treader Book Shop in downtown Ann Arbor, speaking about Literati Bookstore.
- 2013 Feb 12
Carrbor, NC, Indie Closing
Nice Price Books in Carrboro, NC, is set to close after 27 years in business.
- 2013 Feb 11
Can Bookstores Charge for Browsing?
HarperCollins c.e.o. Victoria Barnsley has said the idea of the bookshop as a book club, charging for browsing, is "not that insane," given the level of threat faced by the general bookshop.
Bookin' It to Close
The Minnesota bookstore will close its doors with a going out of business sale.
- 2013 Feb 07
B&N Shrinks
New bookstores are born.
- 2013 Feb 06
Should We Be Crying for B&N?
LA Times wonders.
The Loss of Bookstores
The closing of several big chain bookstores has left a wide geographical void in south Broward and northern Miami-Dade counties. Bereft booklovers say e-books and Amazon can’t replace paper or the community experience of bricks-and-mortar stores.
WH Smith Launches Children's Stores
Retailer WH Smith is to open its first two dedicated children's stores in the UK under the brand Zoodle by WH Smith.
Waterstones Restructures
Head of books Rik McShane is promoted to the newly created role of retail director.
- 2013 Feb 01
Left Hand Books Closes After 34 Years
Left Hand Book Collective, a volunteer-run and explicitly socialist Pearl Street staple, announced it will shut down April 15.
"Bookstores Aren't Dead"
Says Ann Patchett.
- 2013 Jan 30
The Unique Features of Boston Indies
“The store has character to it. If you walk into it, you know that we’re about books,” said Jeff Mayersohn, owner of Harvard Book Store.
- 2013 Jan 24
Investors Look to Open Texas Bookstore
The store will be called The Wild Detectives, a nod to Bolano.
- 2013 Jan 22
Schuler Books Closes After 5 Years
A five-year experiment with a bookstore in downtown Grand Rapids is coming to a close.
- 2013 Jan 17
B&N: The Last Big Bookseller Standing
But for how long?
Queen Anne Books to Reopen
Rumors had swirled for months, but now it is confirmed: Queen Anne is getting its bookstore back in February.
A Love Letter to Scientific Bookstores
"I found liberation on the shelves and my favorite technical bookstore."
- 2013 Jan 15
A Bookstore Recovers After Sandy
New York's nonprofit bookstore Printed Matter in west Chelsea lost close to 10,000 books and sustained more than $200,000 in damages during Hurricane Sandy. The day after the storm, volunteers were at the store to help - even though some didn't have power themselves.
Greeley Bookstore Closes After 40 Years
The corner of 16th Street and 10th Avenue has played home to a staple in the Greeley community for more than 20 years, but history and character is no match for the competitive and unfavorable textbook industry, which will force The Book Stop to close its doors Feb. 28.
- 2013 Jan 14
22-Year-Old Buys Bookstore
That Bookstore In Blytheville is now under new ownership, and that owner is looking to put his passion for the book world to work in making the shop a "destination" spot in the community.
- 2013 Jan 10
Books on Beechwood Gets High-Tech
The story of how the Ottawa bookstore was bought.
- 2013 Jan 08
Edwardsville Bookstore Seeks Relocation
Faced with competition from e-books and e-readers like Kindles and Nooks, owner LuAnn Locke, 45, is looking for a new location and a new look for her four-year-old bookstore.
Another Reno Bookstore Closes
Zephyr Books will close in June.
- 2013 Jan 07
A Song for Indie Bookstores
Done by the people of Common Good Books in St. Paul.
- 2012 Dec 21
Helping Book-Starved East L.A.
How used bookstores are fixing things.
- 2012 Dec 19
Re-Inventing the Indie Bookstore
“The only communities that will end up having bookstores are communities that embrace the idea that they still need a bookstore."
- 2012 Dec 18
Indie Booksellers Thriving
Despite not having a smash-hit like Steve Jobs this holiday season, independent booksellers are doing very well.
Indie Bookstore Eyes Ann Arbor Location
Literati Bookstore is looking to move into the storefront.
Help Keep Word Up Alive
And listen to Junot Diaz talk about what the bookstore means to him.
- 2012 Dec 13
Bookstores More Concerned with E-books
John Peace, manager of Cheever Books, said he mostly sells books to the older folks, but that he gets some college students here and there. Thomas said customers love the thrill of hunting for a book inside a store — something that online retailers lack.
- 2012 Dec 12
'My Bookstore' and the Book-Besotted
"I've never much cared one way or the other about bookstores..I didn't understand why it was such a big deal. More often than not I bought books through Amazon, and for the usual reasons: it was cheap and spared me the trouble of talking to people."
- 2012 Dec 11
Collected Works To Close
Barring a miracle, Collected Works, one of Ottawa’s few remaining independent bookstores, will be out of business by Christmas Eve.
- 2012 Dec 05
Mahattan's Only LGBT Bookstore Fights
Manhattan's only bookstore dedicated to LGBT literature is pushing to turn its pop-up shop into a permanent location.
- 2012 Dec 04
The Value of Second-Hand Bookshops
Telegraph: "As bookshops are displaced by the internet, the author of a new work on serendipity describes the joys of delving in dusty shelves."
- 2012 Nov 28
Parnassus Books Thriving
When novelist Ann Patchett opened a bookstore here in her hometown a year ago, she wondered if she was "opening an ice shop in the age of Frigidaire."
- 2012 Nov 26
Lorem Ipsum Takes To Web for New Owner
"Rather than run from technology, we were going to embrace it to provide a new sales channel."
- 2012 Nov 20
Hearts & Minds Bookstore Turns 30
The bookstore started out with just Byron Borger and his wife, Beth, on staff -- "in the store, around the clock" -- and plenty of help from family members. Now, it employs three salespeople, a bookkeeper and an employee solely dedicated to mail orders.
- 2012 Nov 15
Megachurch Appeals Ruling with Bookstore
Advocates for a South Nashville megachurch argued in the Tennessee Court of Appeals this morning that a gym, bookstore and cafe on its property “fit the spiritual needs of the congregation” and thus should not be subject to property taxes.
- 2012 Nov 14
Bookstore Starts First Edition Book Club
For $500 a year, you can get one signed first edition book per month.
- 2012 Nov 13
Seminary Co-op Moves After 51 Years
In Illinois, the Seminary Co-op Bookstore will reopen at a new location, one block further east and one story higher than it has been for the past 51 years.
- 2012 Nov 12
Vancouver's Oldest Bookstore Closes
ABC Book & Comic Emporium will close after 65 years of business.
- 2012 Nov 09
Turning the Page at Shakespeare & Co.
“My father always used to say, by the time you’re 21 you’ll be working here, but I was interested in theatre. Then, one summer, I went to work there – and that summer turned into 10 years."
- 2012 Nov 08
Crazy? This Guy Bought a Bookstore
Tom Lyons started his latest business venture at an age when many of his colleagues have retired.
Northern Manhattan Bookstores
Many are closing, but La Casa Azul has no fear.
- 2012 Nov 02
Books & Books Celebrates 30
“Let’s not say it’s not a struggle. We’re not coasting,” Kaplan said. “We are successful because the community of readers and writers in South Florida supports us. If there wasn’t the amount and intensity of readers and writers down here that demand a bookstore, we wouldn’t be able to survive.”
- 2012 Nov 01
Rainy Day Books: End of an Era
The bookstore in Tillamook has been open on the corner of Second and Main Street for 26 years.
- 2012 Oct 31
Amazon Gets No Warm Welcome
Bookstores aren't opening their doors to Amazon titles.
- 2012 Oct 26
The Bookstore Brain
How do bookstores choose their books? The New Yorker answers.
- 2012 Oct 24
Busboys and Poets Comes to Hyattsville
While waiters at the Busboys and Poets in Hyattsville’s Arts District are busy serving food to customers in the bustling restaurant, Rodrigo Rioja quietly prepares a space, meticulously filling rows of shelves with hundreds of books as he prepares to open the restaurant’s bookstore.
- 2012 Oct 23
Delaware Book Exchange to Close
The store specialized in university merchandise and textbooks.
Eason Opens Virtual Bookshop
Eason has opened a “virtual bookshop” in Connolly railway station in Dublin which will allow customers to buy an e-book straight onto their smart phones using a QR code.
- 2012 Oct 22
Queen Anne Books Looking For Buyer
Katharine Hershey will leave as of the end of November.
- 2012 Oct 19
Wisconsinc Town Gets Local Bookstore
A pair of veteran St. Paul, Minn., booksellers are opening a used bookstore in the nearby Wisc. town of River Falls.
- 2012 Oct 18
Wild Iris May Close
Florida feminist indie Wild Iris Books might have to shut its doors.
Wichita Booksellers Gauge Future
The Wichita Eagle looks at how local booksellers, facing a difficult climate, feel about their future.
- 2012 Oct 12
Open Door Bookstore For Sale
The longtime owner of the Open Door Bookstore in downtown Schenectady, New York, is retiring and putting the business up for sale.
- 2012 Oct 11
B&N Closing Jenkintown Store
The store had been around for 20 years.
- 2012 Oct 09
Teen Opens Bookstore to Pay For College
A teen in Tennessee is determined to go to college. So much so, he's started a business to fund his dream.
- 2012 Oct 01
Local Bookstores Support Banned Books
Taking a stand against reader censorship, several Tri-Valley bookstores are focusing on books that have been challenged by authoritative agencies over the years in honor of Banned Book Week.
- 2012 Sep 28
Marc Jacobs Opens European Bookstores
Marc Jacobs has opened two new Book Marc locations in London and Paris.
Pinocchio's Bookstore Closes
The east Memphis bookstore had a 35-year run.
- 2012 Sep 27
How Wichita Booksellers Read the Future
"Local booksellers are mostly upbeat about their business and their futures. They think their local ownership is a factor in their ability to survive, as is their willingness to adapt to the changing market."
