About Bookstores

Sustain-a-Bull, the Local First organization launched last fall by The Regulator Bookshop’s Tom Campbell, has been steadily expanding.

Lorelei Books, a quaint bookshop in the historic town of Vicksburg, Mississippi, bridges the gap between old-fashioned and high-tech. Owner Laura Weeks founded the store five years ago to fill a void in the small, tight-knit community.

Rebecca Dowling wanted to make Hockessin Book Shelf’s book group different. Inspired by IndieBound, she named the group Eat Drink Read and partnered with a local gourmet shop.

In the aftermath of the tornadoes that wreaked havoc in the southern and eastern U.S. and killed 45 people, ABA checked in with several North Carolina bookstores.

Nantucket Bookworks buys Penguin’s Mini; A bookstore pops up in New York; Online campaign helps keep Rock City Books alive; Sundance Bookstore and Music honored

Denver Local applauds Tattered Cover; Water Street Bookstore turns 20 and looks to the future; Greenlight Bookstore launches summer open mic series

In celebration of National Volunteer Week, which runs from April 10 - 16, booksellers from Indigo Bridge Books and Open Books talk about the logistics of working with a team of community members happy to donate their time.

Cathy Berner, children’s/YA specialist and event coordinator for Blue Willow Bookshop, talks about the store’s role in this past weekend’s Houston TeenBookCon.

Bookstores have found a sideline that everybody likes: food. Booksellers from Books and Greetings, Readers’ Books, and  Clinton Book Shop recently spoke to BTW about the food or food-related items they’ve added to their inventory.

New owners explain why they bought Politics and Prose; Chapter One considers some minor re-arranging; Oblong celebrates expansion

On April 5, Little Shop of Stories participated in One Day Without Shoes, sponsored by TOMS Shoes, to raise awareness about the millions of children forced to go barefoot.

Clinton Book Shop and Over the Moon Bookstore improved the dreary month of February by offering customers month-long programs based on Sharon Salzberg’s bestseller, Real Happiness.

On March 25, about 100 customers participated in a community discussion about the book business and how Vermont’s Northshire Bookstore can continue to thrive as the industry changes.

After considering offers from a number of interested parties, Barbara Meade and David Cohen, husband of the late Carla Cohen, have chosen to sell Washington, D.C.’s iconic Politics and Prose Bookstore to former Washington Post journalists Bradley Graham and his wife, Lissa Muscatine.

Sandi Torkildson recently figured that if A Room of One’s Own sold just five more books a day, it could comfortably commit to a new lease.