Indie Bookstores

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

Posted 02.21.2012

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

Oscar Raymundo | Posted 03.10.2012

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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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How Will We Read: On Main Street?

C. M. Rubin | Posted 02.12.2012

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Many independent book stores are already redefining their role for the future by finding new and compelling ways to differentiate themselves from online retailers.

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Upstairs, Downstairs: Torn Between My Books and My Kindle

Holly Robinson | Posted 02.12.2012

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My husband gave me a Kindle for my birthday. At first I protested. As a writer, avid reader, and patron of indie bookstores with cats curled on floral armchairs, what did I want with this devilish contraption?

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Occupy the Book: Is It Author Spring?

Brenda Peterson | Posted 12.26.2011

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Are we now seeing the power shift from publishers to authors? A kind of Occupy Publishers' Row by enterprising authors? Or perhaps an Author Spring?

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WATCH: Comedian John Hodgman On The Future Of Bookstores

Posted 10.17.2011

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The Daily Show last night featured a piece on the decline of the bookstore. Author and comedian John Hodgman asked Jon Stewart, "Did you know books us...

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Indie Bookstore Wants To Help Ex-Borders Employees

Dallas/Fort Worth | By | Posted 10.01.2011

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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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The eBook vs. Physical Book Debate Continues

Fosters | Posted 08.27.2011

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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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PHOTOS: Bookstores We Love For Their Spirit Of Independence--What's Your Favorite?

Posted 08.27.2011

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Independence Day 2011--it's approaching next week, and we wanted to celebrate the spirit of independence in books. In a difficult economy and a landsc...

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2011 Indie Book Award Winners Announced

Posted 08.08.2011

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Independent Book Publishing Professionals Group has named the best indie books of 2011....

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Why You Should Read More Physical Books

nydailynews.com | By Jacob E. Osterhout | Posted 08.07.2011

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There's a theory that independent bookstores can't survive in the age of digital tomes. ...

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Dispatches From the (Book Tour) Front

Meg Waite Clayton | Posted 06.14.2011

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I'm on book tour with The Four Ms. Bradwells. That's the good news and the bad.

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How To Keep An Independent Bookstore In Business

coloradoan.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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Question: What is BookEnds, and how long has it been in business? Answer: BookEnds is a used, new and rare bookstore that also sells bookends, book...

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What Shop Made Publisher's Weekly Bookstore Of The Year?

publishersweekly.com | Judith Rosen | Posted 05.25.2011

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In a clean sweep for the heartland, Anderson’s Books, which includes Anderson’s Bookshops in Naperville and Downer’s Grove, Ill., ABCFairs, and ...

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Old Saybrook Independent Bookstore Closing

The Middletown Press : Serving Middletown, CT | Randall Beach, New Haven Register | Posted 05.25.2011

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DONNA BOOKMAN, the appropriately named manager of Emerson and Cook Book Co. in Old Saybrook, has been having some dispiriting conversations with her o...

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Independent Booksellers Choice Awards Announced: Join The Debate On Who Should Win!

The Huffington Post | Zoe Triska | Posted 05.25.2011

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Yesterday, Melville House, in addition to many other independent publishers, announced the first Independent Booksellers Choice Awards. They are doing...

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Independent Alternatives To Closed Borders Bookstores

edrants.com | Edward Champion | Posted 05.25.2011

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The list of 200 Borders bookstores was obtained from court records. I located the alternative bookstores using a variety of online sources (Indiebound...

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eBooks: How Do Small Indie Stores Survive The Digital Age?

usatoday.com | Bob Minzesheimer | Posted 05.25.2011

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Increasingly, consumers are ordering print books online and reading e-books delivered instantly to mobile devices and e-readers such as Amazon's Kindl...

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Weirdest Things Bought In Bookstores (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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With Borders Books in trouble but Barnes and Noble doing well, and with indie bookstores getting so much positive attention, it seems like so many wac...

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How Did This Georgetown Indie Bookstore Thrive?

The Munch | Posted 05.25.2011

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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...

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Indie Bookstore Tour With Creator Of The Moth

George Dawes Green | Posted 05.25.2011

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We call ourselves the Unchained Tour. We're a posse of fiddlers and singers and raconteurs and we're headed for a performance.

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Literary Underdogs

The Guardian | Benedicte Page | Posted 05.25.2011

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The eight books chosen for the inaugural Fiction Uncovered will be announced in spring 2011 and go into a Waterstone's "3 for 2" promotion. Foyles and...

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It's Okay to Be Ambidextrous, but Don't Let Either Hand Do All the Work: on Jaron Lanier and Book Buying

John Mesjak | Posted 05.25.2011

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Indie bricks and mortar bookstores may not always be able to satisfy that desire for "search-find-click-done" instantaneity, but online search & shop can only take us so far.

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