With business analysts predicting the demise of retail bookstores, and a major player like Borders filing bankruptcy, it's no wonder small independent...
GalleyCat | Maryann Yin on February 9, 2011 11:10 AM | Posted 05.25.2011
Powell's Books has laid off 31 employees. The employees worked in four different locations at the Portland bookseller....
The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
It's been a tough decade for bookstores with a record number of closings. We've done the bookstore obituaries and then we decided to celebrate the liv...
npr.org | Posted 05.25.2011
There was a time, not so long ago, when chain bookstores had a pretty bad reputation. Barnes & Noble and Borders were seen as predators eager to destr...
sfgate.com | Liz Hafalia / The Chronicle | Posted 05.25.2011
As president of the independent American Booksellers Association, Tucker has been working with Google on its Google Editions initiative for the past t...
csmonitor.com | Posted 05.25.2011
Today, however, as e-books begin to capture their share of the bookselling market, the distinction between big-box booksellers and the smaller guys ma...
The Munch | Posted 05.25.2011
Levy opened Bridge Street Books in 1980, and was the sole employee for the first six months. The independent bookstore, which now has four part-time e...
Poets & Writers | Jeremiah Chamberlin | Posted 05.25.2011
It's also clear that this store is an integral part of the fabric of this neighborhood. It's located in a vibrant area of lower Manhattan--though tech...
AP | JULIE BOSMAN | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK — Shoppers near New York City's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts will have to look harder for books to buy: Barnes & Noble is clo...
New York Times | JULIE BOSMAN | Posted 05.25.2011
The massive Barnes & Noble store that straddles Broadway and 66th Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan will close at the end of January, driven ...
Wall Street Journal | JAMES B. STEWART | Posted 05.25.2011
My hunch is that B&N never really embraced the Internet or e-books, tied as it was to the old-fashioned world of physical books and stores. As B&N foc...
The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
Last week, we posted a list of some of our favorite independent bookstores across the country, and asked you to submit your own favorites too. The sub...
pressdemocrat.com | Mary Jo Winter | Posted 05.25.2011