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This Week in Indie Bookstores

  • Ian MacAllen
  • April 26, 2016
Independent bookstores are thriving because many are adapting technology and learning how to better serve their local community. A stunning new bookstore has opened in eastern China with dazzling displays…
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Make America Read Again

  • Brian Hurley
  • April 19, 2016
What if you could spend a little bit of money to make sure that your favorite books from independent publishers—like Coffee House Press, Nouvella, Copper Canyon, Dorothy, and City Lights—turn up…
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This Week in Indie Bookstores

  • Ian MacAllen
  • April 12, 2016
A bookstore in mafia-controlled Sicily refuses to stock a book by the son of a jailed mafia “boss of bosses,” Totò Riina. P.S.Bookshop, a used bookstore in Brooklyn’s DUMBO neighborhood,…
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This Week in Indie Bookstores

  • Ian MacAllen
  • April 5, 2016
Beijing’s censorship crackdown on bookstores is being extended to Hong Kong’s airport. India Today looks at six must-see bookstores from across India. Take a look inside 2nd & Charles, the rapidly…
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This Week in Indie Boosktores

  • Ian MacAllen
  • March 29, 2016
A charity bookstore in Swansea, Wales, had so many copies of Fifty Shades of Gray that the store built a fort. A Georgia store needs a superhero after more than…
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This Week in Indie Bookstores

  • Ian MacAllen
  • March 22, 2016
A Buffalo bookstore owner was the target of an FBI investigation for more than two years, and now he wants to know why. Can independent bookstores survive in the state that…
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This Week in Indie Bookstores

  • Ian MacAllen
  • March 15, 2016
Famed Indian bookseller Ram Advani has passed away at the age of 95. He had planned to continue visiting his shops until was 99. Elton John has a favorite Los…
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This Week in Indie Bookstores

  • Ian MacAllen
  • February 16, 2016
A bookstore owner in Maine has collected a huge payday after a rare stamp sold for close to $60,000. One of the missing Hong Kong booksellers was a British citizen,…
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This Week in Indie Bookstores

  • Ian MacAllen
  • February 9, 2016
New York City’s St. Mark’s Bookshop has twice now been faced with closing over financial issues. But the store has a mysterious, rich benefactor who keeps pouring money into the…
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The Power of Amazon

  • Olivia Wetzel
  • January 25, 2016
How much of the world has Amazon taken over? The Guardian talks with University Book Store and Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle, two independent bookstores, the former located less than a mile…
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Independent Bookstore Day

  • Roxie Pell
  • April 28, 2015
What better way to spend a weekend than by supporting independent bookstores? This Saturday, stores all over the country will carry exclusive books and art pieces designed for the first…
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Indie Bookstore Road Trip

  • Ian MacAllen
  • September 15, 2014
Independent bookstores will save the world, or at least the publishing industry, maybe. Josh Weil and Mike Harvkey took a road trip across the country, exploring independent bookstores. They found…
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