Independent Bookstores

'Independent Booksellers Have Never Faced Anything Like Amazon'

Steve Rosenbaum | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Richard Russo, Paidcontent, Amazon, Amazon Bookstore, Book Sales, Independent Bookstores, Richard Russo Empire Falls, Technology News

For all the talk about 'monetization' -- the actual business of media often gets shorted on the industry conference circuit.

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The Amazon Conundrum

Howard Fishman | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Amazon.com, The Strand, Online Retailers, Independent Bookstores, Economics, Business, Business Strategy, Record Stores, Video, Small Business News

And so ensued the ethical debate: support The Strand and pay a whopping $10 more for the book, or save the $10 and order the same book online, further hastening the imminent demise of great bookstores like the very one I was standing in?

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The Mystery of a Book Bus Tour

M.J. Rose | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Authors, Publishing, Book Publishing, Publishing Industry, Book Marketing, Books, Independent Bookstores, Fiction, Bookstores, Social Media Marketing, Books News

The Atria Mystery Bus tour took off April 12th. I think that what made the strongest impression on me was much we all love books. The authors on the tour. The amazing booksellers who hosted us. And the readers who came out to see us.

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WATCH Ann Patchett: Can Online Shopping Make You The Unabomber?

Posted 02.21.2012

Read More: Stephen Colbert, Parnassus, Ann Patchett Colbert Report, Parnassus Books, Independent Bookstores, Ann Patchett, Colbert Report Ann Patchett, Indie Bookstores, Colbert Report, State of Wonder, Bookstores, Colbert, Amazon, Books News

Last night, Ann Patchett appeared on "The Colbert Report" to defend physical bookstores everywhere. Colbert introduced her by praising the amount ...

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A Band of Determined Eccentrics

William Petrocelli | Posted 04.01.2012

Read More: Indie Bookstores, Bookstores, Buying Books, American Booksellers Association, Booksellers, Amazon, Ebooks, Independent Bookstores, Books News

What accounts for an upsurge in confidence among independent booksellers? In part, it's because of an increase in sales in many of these stores within the last quarter.

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New Jersey Bookstore "The Raconteur" Closes Today

The Huffington Post | Jessica Kramer | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Video, New Jersey, The Raconteur, Books, Independent Bookstores, Arts, Bookstores, Culture, Culture News

"They paved paradise and put up a parking lot." Joni Mitchell's landmark lyrics are often overused to the point of triteness, but in this case they...

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How To Compete With Amazon

| Posted 01.14.2012

Read More: Book News, Amazon Books, Compete With Amazon, Boycott Amazon, Independent Bookstores Compete, Independent Bookstores, Amazon Bookstore, Independent Bookstores Amazon, Books News

By Janaka Stucky for Poetry Foundation If you’re reading this, you’re probably at least tangentially aware of what happens among readers, write...

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Did I Just Hammer a Nail Into My Bookstore's Coffin?

Holly Robinson | Posted 03.10.2012

Read More: Social Media, Book Publicity, In Leah's Wake, Terri Giuliano Long, Breast Cancer, Eat Pray Love, Books, Writing, Independent Bookstores, Self-Publishing, Sleeping Tigers, Random House, Editors, Amazon, Createspace, Books News

Who am I to think that my novel is good enough to be published? Am I now as pathetic as those street poets I used to see in Berkeley, peddling their sappy, mistake-laden chapbooks for a dollar a copy? And how the hell does a writer act as her own publicist?

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Why We Need to Save the World's Last Remaining LGBT Bookstores

Oscar Raymundo | Posted 03.10.2012

Read More: Local Bookstores, Indie Bookstores, Bookstores, Books, Independent Bookstores, Lgbt, Gay Bookstoores, Lgbt Bookstores, Gay Voices News

If every LGBT bookstore in the world is set to fade, who will proudly stock our queer, oftentimes "unpublishable" stories? Who will help us validate our fight against mainstream censorship? What will be our gayborhoods' living rooms? Amazon.com certainly won't.

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10 Reading-Related Resolutions for 2012

Dave Astor | Posted 02.20.2012

Read More: Tea Party, New Year's Resolutions, Classic Novels, Presidential Campaign, Independent Bookstores, Mitt Romney, Margaret Atwood, Republicans, Harry Potter, Newt Gingrich, Barack Obama, Books, Reading, Books News

As New Year's Day nears, it's time for some book-related resolutions!

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Remembering George Whitman

Janice Harper | Posted 02.14.2012

Read More: Gregory Corso, Paris, Shakespeare and Company, George Whitman, Independent Bookstores, Books News

Years ago, back in the early eighties after reading too much Henry Miller to do a woman any good, I found myself in Paris, squatting in an old and dusty room above the legendary booksellers, Shakespeare & Company.

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A Truly Black Friday With No Borders

Adam Benson | Posted 01.25.2012

Read More: Borders Books, Borders, Black Friday 2011, Black Friday, Bookstores, Independent Bookstores, Books News

There is one difference about this holiday. I won't be visiting one of my favorite haunts today. This Friday, without Borders Books, is truly a Black one for me.

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How To Save Bookstores

Maria Rodale | Posted 12.27.2011

Read More: Maria's Farm Country Kitchen, Romance Novels, Bookstores, Independent Bookstores, Maya Rodale, Culture News

by guest blogger Maya Rodale, writer of historical tales of true love and adventure. Lately, I've been craving the experience of browsing in booksto...

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Q.R. Markham | Posted 12.25.2011

Read More: Independent Bookstores, Spy-Books, Slidepollajax, Sean Connery, Booksellers, Espionage, Mystery Books, Crime Books, Books News

Editor's Note: This post has been removed from the Huffington Post because it was determined, after its original publication, that large segments had ...

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Confessions of an E-Book Virgin

Dave Astor | Posted 12.21.2011

Read More: Libraries, E-Books, Margaret Atwood, Aldous Huxley, Jules Verne, Bookstores, Facebook, Khaled Hosseini, Louisa May Alcott, Television, Independent Bookstores, Radio, Youtube, E-Readers, h.g. Wells, Digital Devices, Science Fiction, Books News

Some people continued to ride a horse-and-buggy after many other people switched to cars. Maybe I'm one of those late-adopter types. But at least for now, I'm sticking with print books.

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Book Justice for All

Colleen Jaurretche | Posted 12.20.2011

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Lending and owning books is basic to culture and the building of community, and essential to democracy. It is a gesture of basic humanity that we cannot afford to lose.

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Is It Best to Buy or Borrow Books?

Dave Astor | Posted 11.28.2011

Now stepping into the ring: buying books vs. using a library! That bout might never make pay-per-view, but it's a contest often on the minds of avid readers.

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What Makes You Buy a Book?

Randy Susan Meyers | Posted 10.21.2011

Read More: Buying Books, Book Covers, Book-Titles, Books, Independent Bookstores, Book Reviews, Twitter, Facebook, Word of Mouth, Amazon, Books News

What makes you buy a book? Is it different from what makes you watch a movie? It seems so, because it's so private -- just you and the bookseller or librarian -- or, these days, as likely, your computer.

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Indie Bookstore Wants To Help Ex-Borders Employees

Dallas/Fort Worth | By | Posted 10.01.2011

Read More: Borders Books Employees, Borders Books, Indie Bookstores, Borders Books Closing, Half Price Books, Independent Bookstores, Books News

About 130 North Texans will lose their jobs after bookstore megachain Borders recently announced it would fold. A total of 17,000 Borders employees ac...

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"Kissing" Books Could Have Saved Borders

Gail Vida Hamburg | Posted 09.23.2011

Read More: Authors, Literature, Borders Bankruptcy, Borders Books, Writers, Importance of Reading, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Independent Bookstores, Publishers, Bookstores, Reading, Salman Rushdie, Books News

As men wearing suits analyze the death of Borders, it's become clear that none of them grew up kissing books. They blame book readers, digital books, Amazon, and the recession for the demise of the chain when they should be blaming the executives.

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Bestselling Author Opens Independent Bookstore

AP | By CHRIS TALBOTT | Posted 09.23.2011

Read More: Independent Bookstore Openings, Nashville Bookstores, Karen Hayes, State of Wonder, Anne Patchett, Bookstores, Independent Bookstores, Books News

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Ann Patchett lives in a different era. The best-selling author of "State of Wonder," "Bel Canto" and other novels doesn't tweet, ...

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WATCH: Building A Bookstore In 77 Seconds

Posted 09.13.2011

Read More: Bookstore Closings, Texas Bookstores, Kathy Doyle Thomas, Building a Bookstore, Half Price Books, Independent Bookstores, Video, Books News

While book stores all over the country continue to shut down at an alarming rate, one of our favorite independent book stores, Half Price Books, is op...

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The eBook vs. Physical Book Debate Continues

Fosters | Posted 08.27.2011

Read More: Ereaders, Book Publishing, Baldface Books, Independent Bookstores, Barnes and Noble, Indie Bookstores, Bookstores, Clyde Allen, Digital Publishing, Ebooks, Books News

Baldface Books is celebrating a milestone....

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Green Charity To Open Free Bookstores All Over England

The Bookseller | Posted 08.27.2011

Read More: Shaylesh Patel, Free Books, The Booksellers Association, UK Bookstores, Independent Bookstores, Healthy Planet, Indie Bookstores, Good News, Bookstores, Books for Free, Books News

A green charity offering books for free aims to open an outlet in every town in the UK, and has called on publishers to donate titles....

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Buy A Hardcover, Get An eBook Free?

nytimes.com | JULIE BOSMAN | Posted 08.27.2011

Read More: Barnes and Noble, Ereaders, Ebooks Sell Print Books, Algonguin, Print Books, Free eBooks, Independent Bookstores, Ebooks, Books News

How do you help brick-and-mortar stores sell books? Throw in an e-book. That is the idea of one publisher, Algonquin, which began a promotion in 30...

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