This Week In Indie Bookstores
The Strand is failing to implement their own COVID-19 safety standards, according to workers. Albany bookstores hope to provide free books to students who need them. A particularly narrow bookstore in...
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New York’s Mercer Street Books (a shop astute readers of this column might recognize in the column’s featured image) is facing hard times because of COVID-19 and NYU construction, and has turned to...
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Check out this comprehensive list and amazing graphic featuring America’s Black-owned bookstores. Iowa gets what might be its first-ever Black-owned bookstore. Black-owned bookstores want more than an...
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Vroman’s Bookstore has lasted over a hundred years, but now it needs our support to stay in business. A bookseller in China was sentenced to seven years in prison and fined thirty-thousand dollars for...
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Now you can smell like a bookstore, thanks to Powell’s new fragrance. The Strand’s pleas for more book sales yielded 25,000 orders in one weekend, but the sudden rush hasn’t been great for its...
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Starting to shop for the holidays? Don’t forget the books! And, celebrate indie bookstores on Small Business Saturday. Netflix teen romance Dash & Lily arrived just in time to make NYC’s the Strand...
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This Black-owned bookstore in Los Angeles celebrates Black history every month. If you’re in Cincinnati, check out these local indie bookstores. Condé Nast Traveler considers the ups and downs of...
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Chicago’s City Lit Books is set to reopen in June under new ownership. Fast Company examines how Bookshop.org helped indie shops survive the pandemic. Pittsburgh’s White Whale Bookstore planned to open...
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Have you ever wondered about a day in the life of an indie bookseller? Pittsburgh’s White Whale Bookstore is expanding. The LA Times reports on the devastation caused to Gaza bookstores by Israel’s...
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Cottonwood Books, the last remaining independent bookstore in Baton Rouge, is currently for sale. Now you can get drunk on Powell’s Books-flavored beer. Don’t pretend this wasn’t inevitable (or did you...
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