• Bookstores and Libraries

    Your Week in Virtual Book Events

    Your Weekend in Virtual Book Events, Oct. 2nd-4th

    By Kiki Nicole  October 2, 2020
    Book Festivals

    What to Watch at the Brooklyn Book Festival

    By Literary Hub  October 2, 2020
    The Hub

    The greatest job in the literary world is accepting applications again.

    By Dan Sheehan  September 24, 2020
    The Hub

    Would you find this bookstore beautiful or terrifying? Or both.

    By Jonny Diamond  September 23, 2020
    The Hub

    Good news Fridays: Area woman drives awesome book bus for the love of it.

    By Jonny Diamond  September 4, 2020
    The Hub

    Check out this gorgeous illustrated map of Black-owned bookshops across the country.

    By Corinne Segal  August 28, 2020
    The Hub

    Powell’s Books will stop selling books through Amazon due to its “detrimental impact” on stores.

    By Corinne Segal  August 27, 2020
    The Hub

    See the design proposals for the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in North Dakota.

    By Corinne Segal  August 21, 2020
    The Hub

    Bookseller, writer, and publisher organizations want congress to go after Amazon.

    By Jonny Diamond  August 18, 2020
    The Hub

    How to open a bookstore during a pandemic: Prepare for delays and lots of cleaning.

    By Corinne Segal  August 12, 2020
    The Hub

    Iconic Lower East Side bookstore Bluestockings has found a new home!

    By Jonny Diamond  August 10, 2020
    The Hub

    Is this the greatest TV commercial ever made for a public library?

    By Jonny Diamond  August 4, 2020
    Bookstores

    Amid a virus surge and government repression, Hong Kong’s oldest bookstore is closing.

    By Aaron Robertson  July 29, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Remember Reading in Public?

    By Nick Ripatrazone  July 27, 2020
    Bookselling

    It’s Past Time for the Bookselling Industry to Reckon with Its Institutional Racism

    By Angela Maria Spring  July 23, 2020
    The Hub

    Greenlight Bookstore is pledging to improve treatment of Black employees and customers.

    By Corinne Segal  July 10, 2020
    The Hub

    Look inside Oslo’s stunning new public library, now open to the public.

    By Emily Temple  July 6, 2020
    Bookstores

    Meet Ed Vaughn, an understated Black Power icon and former bookstore owner.

    By Aaron Robertson  June 25, 2020
    Booksellers

    Diary of a Scottish Bookseller

    By Shaun Bythell  June 22, 2020
    Bookstores

    In Celebration of Bookstores Reopening

    By Monika Zgustova  June 11, 2020
    The Hub

    Independent bookstore owner invests in online bookstore famous for destroying independent bookstores.

    By Jonny Diamond  June 5, 2020
    Black Lives Matter

    From Pandemic to Protest, on the Hardships Facing Black-Owned Bookstores

    By Ann Kjellberg  June 4, 2020
    The Hub

    You can order today from these black-owned independent bookstores.

    By Corinne Segal  June 3, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    The Book Industry Charitable Foundation Has Never Been Busier Helping Bookstores

    By Matt Grant  May 29, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Barnes & Noble is slowly reopening stores to shoppers in a few states.

    By Corinne Segal  May 13, 2020
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