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This Week in Indie Bookstores

Publisher HarperCollins has plans to aid new independent bookstores with a development program in the form of discounts and grants. American Bookstore Association members, a trade organization for independent booksellers, reports…

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This Week in Indie Bookstores

An Estonian bookstore is removing Russian propaganda from its shelves after a request from Ukraine. Check out these amazing bookstores from around the world. The Observer shares some photos of The…

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This Week in Indie Bookstores

Saturday was Independent Bookstore Day and hundreds of shops across the country celebrated with discounts, events, and readings. The Bookworm Omaha is the only official bookseller at the annual Berkshire…

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Independent Bookstore Day: Q&A with Lauren Groff

To help kick off the celebrations, The Rumpus has an exclusive Q&A with Lauren Groff, 2016 Bookstore Day Author Ambassador.

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This Week in Indie Bookstores

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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This Week in Indie Bookstores

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 Boosktores

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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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

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

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

One Moore Books in Monrovia, Liberia, plans on publishing books aimed at children. The shop was founded by thirty-year-old Wayétu Moore, who fled Liberia as a refugee at the age…

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The Power of Amazon

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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