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Anthology New and Used Books
515 Center St.
Scranton, PA 18503
(570) 941-9630
Archivia Books
993 Lexington Ave.
New York, NY 10021
(212) 570-2422
www.archiviabooks.com
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 Hosting Bob Woodward, Anna Quindlen, or Joan Didion would be a coup for any venue. Powell's second volume in its "Out of the Book" film series, The Coldest Winter: David Halberstam, makes all three authors, and more, available to any interested independent bookstore.
 Fact & Fiction, the 21-year-old Missoula, Montana, institution, is being bought by The Bookstore at the University of Montana, a not-for-profit corporation guided by a board of directors composed of faculty and students. Barbara Theroux, Fact & Fiction's owner, said the sale was expected to be finalized today, Thursday, November 8.
 Counterculture pioneers of Manhattan's East Village in the 1960s and '70s warned young people not to trust anyone over 30. If that admonition applies to bookstores, the illustrious St. Mark's Bookshop, now located on Third Avenue between 8th and 9th Streets, may soon attract wary glances from youthful customers.
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 Eso Won Books, an African-American specialty store in Los Angeles, has received considerable support from the local community following last month's news of its possible closing.
Yes, Virginia, the holiday season is really only three weeks away... so Bookselling This Week decided to ask 12 independent booksellers to predict their holiday bestsellers, explain how they reconfigure store operations to meet the rush, and reveal one mistake they vow never to make again. Here's what we learned....
Americans are staying healthier and living longer, which means, among other things, it's no longer unheard-of to have teenagers and octogenarians in the same workplace.
While recognizing that generalizations are by their nature only sometimes true, whether about age groups or other entities, BTW decided to ask independent booksellers what it's like to have such a diversity of generations in their bookstores.
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About ABA
The American Booksellers Association, a national not-for-profit trade organization, works with booksellers and industry partners to ensure the success and profitability of independently owned book retailers, and to assist in expanding the community of the book.
Independent bookstores act as community anchors; they serve a unique role in promoting the open exchange of ideas, enriching the cultural life of communities, and creating economically vibrant neighborhoods.
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Participants in this January's Winter Institute in Louisville, Kentucky, who want to visit one of the area's local independent bookstores need only cross the Ohio River to find Destinations Booksellers in New Albany, Indiana. Though it's in a neighboring state, the store is 10 minutes from the Wi3 hotel, and that's "if the traffic is really bad," said Destinations' co-owner Randy Smith. 
St. Helens Book Shop
New York City's Labyrinth Books, an academic bookstore serving Columbia University and the Upper West Side of Manhattan, recently became 
After managing a food co-op that grew from four employees into a 100-person operation, Brad Smith was looking for a business where he could once again know most of his customers personally. He found that in Paulina Springs Books in Sisters, Oregon, population 2,000.