This Week in Indie Bookstores
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This Week in Indie Bookstores
Memphis-area Burke’s Book Store celebrated its 140th year of selling books. The current owners plan to use the milestone reintroduce the store, and that includes investing in a custom bicycle to make book deliveries. Square Books in Oxford, Mississippi started…
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This Week in Indie Bookstores
Georgia’s Book Exchange opened this week in South Boston. The store is in Virginia, not Massachusetts, and its named after a woman, not a state—Angela Harding and her late mother Georgia had long planned on opening the store built on…
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This Week in Indie Bookstores
A new wall mural has been installed in Los Angeles’s The Last Bookstore to coincide with a new rare books section. Bookstores in train stations and airports are seeing sales rise as they begin acting more like traditional independent bookstores…
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This Week in Indie Bookstores
An “Honesty Bookshop” has opened in Najing, China where there are no cashiers or staff of any kind and customers pay any amount they want. Diary of a Wimpy Kid author Jeff Kinney is following a childhood dream and opening…