About Bookstores

In Black Dog & Leventhal’s My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read Shop, author Rick Bragg pays tribute to his favorite bookstore, Alabama Booksmith, and his favorite bookseller, Jake Reiss.

Pennsylvania’s Harleysville Books teamed up with a neighboring boutique to host an event that highlighted both indie businesses and raised money to fight breast cancer.

Booktenders’ celebrates 30 years; Kepler’s to reopen

Joan Wickersham describes her relationship with New Hampshire’sToadstool Bookshop in an excerpt from Black Dog & Leventhal’s forthcoming My Bookstore, and Toadstool co-owner Willard Williams shares his thoughts about being included in the collection, the key to his bookstores’ longevity, and more.

Canada’s McNally Robinson to be sold to employees; Community Bookstore partners for new literary series; DIESEL names event coordinator; Wichita bookstores are optimistic

Booksellers at Chapter One, Vintage Books, and City Lights are marking this week’s 30^th anniversary celebration of Banned Books Week with creative displays, banned book read-outs, and engaging censorship conversations.

The opening of Acorn Books in Dover, Delaware, earlier this month was made possible with help from YWCA’s Women’s Entrepreneurship Division and SCORE — community resources funded in part by the U.S. Small Business Administration.

Eagle Harbor welcomes new business partners; Northshire one step closer to Saratoga; Wedding bells ring at Andover; Ninth Street celebrates Banned Books Week

Kepler’s launches new series; Schuler Books and Music featured; Doylestown Bookshop to hold grand re-opening; Salt Lake City celebrates with The King’s English

My Bookstore, a collection of tributes to America’s indie booksellers by more than 80 well-known writers, will be published on November 13. Over the next several weeks, BTW will be featuring excerpts from the collection alongside interviews with featured booksellers. First up is author Michael Tisserand and Octavia Books’ co-owner Tom Lowenburg.

Maria’s Bookshop in Durango, Colorado, has planned a full schedule of events for Banned Books Week, including a censorship panel featuring ABFFE President Chris Finan.

Vermont Bookshop honored; New indie opens in Arkansas; Books on Broad featured; DIESEL transformed

Patrick Nelson is hoping that other indie bookstores will see the benefit of partnering with Mrs. Nelson’s Library Services to offer book binding, cataloging, processing, and more to their own school and library customers.

Bookmans does Banned Books; Pegasus hosts a bookstore wedding; Photo of Maria’s featured in Outside

When the closing of Dover, Delaware’s Atlantic Books was announced, Ginny Jewell and Marie Shane, former managers of the chain store, decided to take matters into their own hands. Their new store, Acorn Books, opens next Friday, September 14.