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For many online shoppers, high shipping charges from retailers are a deal breaker. Increasingly, retailers large and small — including indie booksellers — are taking a close look at their policies in order to respond to consumer preferences.

Lake Forest celebrates 65th anniversary; Charis marks 40 years; Hooray for Books! seeks funds for expansion; Women & Children First rallies community support; Russo’s opens office space

Vallejo Bookstore opens; Greenville, South Carolina, bookstore finds a home; Papercuts JP launches Indiegogo campaign

Since its opening in September 2013, Curious Iguana in Frederick, Maryland, has donated more than $10,000 to international charities through its operations as a benefit corporation.

Books Inc. to relocate Fourth Street store in 2015; Between the Covers owner honored as entrepreneur of the year; Brazos, AFA inspire music through essay contest; Quail Ridge video features highlights of 30th anniversary celebration

Anderson’s co-owner hosts campaign event for Sen. Durbin; Quail Ridge honors founder at 30th anniversary party; Greenlight Bookstore to celebrate five years; Mrs. Dalloway’s marks a decade in business; The Reading Bug turns five; Burton’s Bookstore welcomes new owner; [words] Bookstore window display supports Authors United; Third Street Books prepares for grand reopening; Porter Square Books shares 12 Awkward Bookseller Moments

Chicago to welcome RoscoeBooks; Best of Books changes ownership; Town House Books celebrates 40 years; The Bookworm relocates, reopens; Nantucket Bookworks to undergo total renovation; The Bookshelf prepares for One Book 2014; Fountainhead Bookstore hosts Bookapalooza; Norbury Books and Café set to open

Maria’s Bookshop celebrates 30th anniversary; Broadway Books finds new co-owner; Scuppernong Books adds new owners; Left Bank Books voted Best Bookstore; Literati Bookstore expands, adds coffee shop; King City Books opens for business

Banned Books Week is being celebrated in bookstores throughout the country from September 21 – 27 with special events, displays, videos, and more. 

Books & Books to open new location; Maple Street Book Shop turns 50; Broadside Bookshop celebrates 40 years; DIESEL to mark 25th anniversary; Gibson’s wins Independent Spirit Award; Politics & Prose offers writer retreats; New bookstore opens with a focus on global books

Located just a few miles from Ferguson, Missouri, Left Bank Books is initiating the #FergusonReads book group to help foster discussions about the recent shooting of Michael Brown Jr.

Maplewood chamber of commerce to honor [words] bookstore owners; Spellbound Children’s Bookshop to celebrate first decade; Norwich Bookstore marks 20 years with an expansion; New bookstore to open in Winter Park, Florida; Blue Frog Books voted best new business; Rizzoli Bookstore finds new location; Lift Bridge Book Shop to change ownership

Finally Found Books owner Todd Hulbert is giving every teacher in two Washington school districts a $10 store gift certificate to help with classroom expenses.

Books Inc. produces Banned Books Week video; Bank Street Bookstore finds new location; Book Culture to open third store; Women & Children First honored with street naming

Husband-and-wife team Jeff Garrett and Nina Barrett welcomed their first customers through the doors of Bookends & Beginnings earlier this year and the store is now well on its way to becoming a welcoming social space for the surrounding community.