About Bookstores

NPR’s Morning Edition will be broadcast from I Know You Like a Book, in Peoria Heights, Illinois, on Friday, April 8, as part of the show’s new initiative to travel to different small towns across America.

Bookseller panelists at the Winter Institute 11 education session “Working With Self-Published Authors” shared best practices for creating partnerships that benefit both self-published authors and the bookstore’s bottom line.

In an op-ed that first appeared in the Daily Californian, Amy Thomas, the president of Pegasus Books, explains why we should all be concerned that Amazon continues to create an existential crisis that affects more than bookstores.

The University of Connecticut will replace the UConn Co-op, which has operated the campus bookstore for 40 years, with a bookstore operated by either Follett or Barnes & Noble as early as June.

Parnassus Books to launch bookmobile; Group seeks to open Billings Bookstore Co-operative; Florida’s MacIntosh Books moves; Micawber’s Books relocates; Book Revue welcomes new café; Left Bank Books plays role in marriage proposal

San Francisco’s Books Inc. has won this year’s Publishers Weekly Bookstore of the Year Award. In an announcement on Wednesday, PW also named Karel/Dutton Group’s Lise Solomon as Rep of the Year.

BookHampton East sold, to be managed by R.J. Julia; Ripped Bodice brings romance to Culver City; Hennessey + Ingalls reopens in Los Angeles’ Arts District

HyperText Bookstore opens in Massachusetts; Stories Bookshop and Storytelling Lab coming to New York City; New owners for Once Upon a Crime; Leadership promotions at Tattered Cover; Open Books owners to retire

Anderson’s Bookshop in Naperville, Illinois, has won the top prize of $3,000 in the Readers, Recommend Your Bookstore sweepstakes from Sourcebooks Landmark.

Magic City Books coming to Tulsa; Savoy Bookshop grand opening set for April 16; Napa Bookmine opens second location; Little Shop of Stories to grow; Grand reopening to celebrate Califon Book Shop’s new owner; Fountainhead Bookstore seeks new logo for new name; Suzy Staubach speaks up for UConn Co-Op; Hamilton creator drives business to Drama Book Shop; Itinerant Literate plans inaugural author event

As plans progress for Greenlight Bookstore’s second location, owners Rebecca Fitting and Jessica Stockton Bagnulo have re-launched the store’s Community Lenders Program, as much to build a relationship with the new neighborhood as to raise start-up capital.

After doctors told bookseller Mimi Applebaum she needed a lifesaving heart transplant, staff members at Inklings Bookshop sprang into action to raise money to help cover the exceptional expenses she and her family will incur.

Third Place Books’ new location nears debut; The Book Haven celebrates grand opening; New owners bring changes to Southampton Books; Vroman’s welcomes Next Chapter coffee shop; World Eye Bookshop owner buys local toy store

At the Winter Institute 11 education session “Event Management for the Very Small Store,” owners and event coordinators from self-defined very small stores took home actionable tips on managing time, resources, publicity, and budgets for in-store and off-site events.

East City Bookshop to open in Washington, D.C.; New look for Main Street Books; Clues Unlimited a mainstay in Tucson