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Indie stores experiment with bundling program; Powell’s reopens Green, Blue rooms after renovations; Monte Cristo Bookshop goes nonprofit; Find Waldo Local a success at Larkspur’s DIESEL

Bank Square Books will be opening a new two-level bookstore with a small café in Westerly, Rhode Island, as part of a joint project with area developers.

A TV commercial campaign developed for Prairie Books & Gifts in Hastings, Nebraska, has garnered a great response from customers and has won a regional Emmy for its music composition. 

Blue Willow Bookshop in Houston, Texas, has developed a storewide system to make staff reviews of new and upcoming titles available to fellow booksellers at the store, allowing for staff to easily post them on the store’s website, turn them into shelf-talkers, and share them with customers on the sales floor.

Bookstore Day for the BookPeople Nation; Books on the Common celebrates 30 years; Face in a Book owner talks expansion, sales, success; Firefly works with senior citizens to help school build library

Four ABA members are opening branch stores within a few weeks of each other this summer: Carmichael’s Bookstore in Louisville, Kentucky; Village House of Books in Los Gatos, California; Green Apple Books in San Francisco; and Tattered Cover Book Store in Denver.

Readers who preorder signed, personalized copies of Alan Gratz’s The League of Seven from Malaprop’s Bookstore/Café will receive a specially printed, numbered chapbook featuring a short story prequel to the trilogy. 

Left Bank anniversary commemorated; Brooklyn indies curate Readings Beneath the Bridge; St. Mark’s reopens in East Village; Creekside reopens with new owners; Black Bear moves to mall kiosk

Linda’s Story Time celebrates 15 years; Skylight Books wins Archipelago contest; DIESEL to close Malibu location

Readers looking for signed, personalized copies of Lemony Snicket books from Hachette this summer can order titles exclusively from Titcomb’s Bookshop.

Founders Ann Christophersen and Linda Bubon have sold Chicago’s Women & Children First to store manager Lynn Mooney and bookseller Sarah Hollenbeck.

At the Association of American University Presses’ annual meeting in June, independent booksellers and university press personnel discussed ways in which they can partner to form strong and mutually beneficial business relationships.

Washington, D.C.’s Politics & Prose has been selected as the official bookseller for the 14th annual Library of Congress National Book Festival, to be held on August 30 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. 

Kobo Writing Life, the do-it-yourself e-book publishing platform, is sponsoring events to bring customers and aspiring writers through the doors of independent bookstores to learn about the self-publishing opportunities available through Kobo.

Schuler Books to buy Nicola’s; La Casa Azul launches book drive for unaccompanied minors; Left Bank Books to celebrate 45 years; Granada Books marks first anniversary; Orinda Books changes hands; bbgb on the move; Iowa’s Book People hosts Summer Selfie Sale