About Bookstores

Last week, Maple Street Book Shop in New Orleans, Louisiana, celebrated the grand opening of its newest location, a branch in the city’s new Healing Arts Center.

Malaprop’s live-streams author event; BookPeople’s Bercu blogs from Russia; Northshire and That Bookstore in Blytheville celebrate 35 years; Village Books to open holiday store; Books of Wonder to become Wonderstruck

Tattered Cover celebrates 40 years; DIESEL returns to Malibu; Erie Book Store changes hands and locations; Micawber’s invites booksellers to share their top 50 favorite titles; Human chain helps move Pudd’nhead Books

Most bookstores on the East Coast survived Hurricane Irene intact and were able to reopen within a day or so, but several were severely damaged, including North Carolina’s Manteo Booksellers and Vermont’s Bartleby’s Books.

Outwrite’s Philip Rafshoon honored; Twin Cities booksellers join literary punch card promo; Lorelei’s Laura Weeks on the “Bookalicious” future of print books

Naomi McEneely, the events coordinator at Lake Forest Book Store, explains why the bookstore’s partnership with area libraries has been beneficial on every level.

Ticketed event a success in Hockessin; Northshire booksellers present summer picks; Beagle Books and Bindery gears up for Indie Bound ’Round; Anderson’s Bookshops feted at  “Celeappreciation”

Bestselling author Ann Patchett and publishing veteran Karen Hayes are set to open Parnassus Books in a 2,500-square-foot space in Greenbriar Village in Nashville, Tennessee, this October.

Greenlight partners with BAM; Indies recognized for novel ways to promote books; BookSmart to open branch in Steinbeck Center

Harvard Book Store is launching its first comics anthology. Minimum Paige will include work from some of the New England graphic novel community’s most well-known names as well as select customer submissions.

Bookselling authors featured in AM New York; Author Midge Raymond visits Orca Books

In response to last week’s announcement of the liquidation of Borders, independent booksellers have reached out to their customers to share their thoughts about the store closings and what they mean for the future of bookselling, as well as to let customers know they’re alive and well and ready to be of service.

On Tuesday, July 26, Books-A-Million Inc. said that its negotiations to buy the leases and assets of 30 Borders bookstores had fallen through; however, there was news this week that  Books-A-Million and Bull Moose, a Maine entertainment company, were interested in several Borders locations.

Red Balloon under new ownership; Q&A with new owners of Politics & Prose

The Bookery Nook adds ice cream; The Regulator Bookshop just wants to have pun; Busboys and Poets has something for everyone; Anderson’s hosts technology petting zoo