New Booksellers

Doctors Eileen Bobek and Natalya Miller have opened Rebel Heart Books, a new general-interest independent bookstore specializing in adult, children’s, and young adult books.

Bookmarks literary nonprofit opens bookstore; Bookie’s relocates, creates events space; Raven Book Store changes hands; BookStacks, Blue Ridge Books mark anniversaries; Kepler’s launches nonprofit literary foundation; Watermark Books teams with police to deliver books

Cultural consultant and Spanish linguist Teresa Carbajal Ravet recently opened the Sententia Vera Cultural Hub, an independent bookstore, coffee bar, and co-working space, in Dripping Springs, Texas.

The second quarter of 2017 saw 15 ABA member store openings and six sales of existing businesses to new owners.

The Bookstore Training Group of Paz & Associates will present its next “Owning a Bookstore” workshop retreat for new and prospective booksellers from August 27 to 30 in Nashville, Tennessee.

Booksellers can visit the American Booksellers Association’s Book Buyer’s Handbook to find information about publisher programs aimed at supporting new bookstores opening in the independent channel.

Interabang Books, Zenith Bookstore open; Booksmith debuts The Bindery; Duende District to pop up in coffee bar; Inkwood Books on the move; Tattered Cover ownership transition complete; Tubby & Coo’s launches publishing arm

Novel bookstore to open in Memphis; Bookbinders Basalt debuts; Walls of Books opens in Georgia; The Strand, Three Sisters, Next Page Books mark anniversaries; Bookbug to expand; Two Sisters Bookery changes hands; From My Shelf owners to sell store via contest

Neighborhood Reads opens in Missouri; Belmont Books debuts in Massachusetts; Bliss Books & Bindery planned for Oklahoma; Joe’s Place reopens in new location

Macmillan Publishers has created a policy to support new bookstores opening in the independent bookstore channel.

Paz & Associates will present its next workshop retreat for new and prospective booksellers from August 27 to 30 in Nashville, Tennessee.

Books of Wonder to open second store; Skylight Books wins small business award; Paragraphs named best bookstore in Texas

Inspired by author Jeff Kinney's bookstore, An Unlikely Story, the Ullom family opened Brick & Mortar Books, a new independent bookstore in Redmond, Washington, earlier this month.

Jim and Staci Stuart of Albion, Michigan, will open Stirling Books & Brew in July, despite an accident during renovations last month that left Staci paralyzed.

Emma Ramadan and Tom Roberge will open Riffraff, a bookstore/bar, in Providence, Rhode Island’s artsy West Side neighborhood later this year.