• Bookstores and Libraries

    Libraries

    Libraries Are Even More Important to Contemporary Community Than We Thought

    By Eric Klinenberg  October 24, 2019
    News and Culture

    The Little-Known ‘Slow Fire’ That’s Destroying All Our Books

    By Chloe Vassot  October 17, 2019
    Bookstores

    The Secret to Shopping in Used Bookstores

    By Kelsey Rexroat  October 4, 2019
    The Hub

    Read up on the radical, life-affirming history of LGBTQ bookstores.

    By Corinne Segal  October 3, 2019
    The Hub

    Will everyone in Chicago please bring their books back to the library now?

    By Corinne Segal  October 3, 2019
    Interview with a Bookstore

    Selling Books in London from a 100-Year-Old Dutch Barge

    By Interview with a Bookstore  October 2, 2019
    The Hub

    Area man attempts to sell self-published book to 50 bookstores in 50 days, learns lesson along the way.

    By Jonny Diamond  September 25, 2019
    The Hub

    Area woman heads to town and impulse-buys entire bookstore.

    By Jonny Diamond  September 11, 2019
    The Hub

    Why it’s bad when a bookstore’s biggest competitor—Amazon—breaks a sales embargo.

    By Josh Cook  September 4, 2019
    The Hub

    Amazon breaks sales embargo on Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments

    By Jonny Diamond  September 4, 2019
    Small Press Flea

    At Brooklyn’s 2019 Small
    Press Flea

    By Eleni Theodoropoulos  August 28, 2019
    The Hub

    Amazon is opening a store across the street from Nashville’s Parnassus Books, because Amazon is bad.

    By Jessie Gaynor  August 26, 2019
    The Hub

    Here is a cool statue of Ray Bradbury riding a rocket Dr. Strangelove-style.

    By Dan Sheehan  August 26, 2019
    The Hub

    A petition protests the ALA’s support for Drag Queen Story Hour events.

    By Corinne Segal  August 7, 2019
    Libraries

    InterLibrary Loan Will
    Change Your Life

    By Nick Ripatrazone  August 7, 2019
    Bookstores

    Providing Help to Booksellers, When They Need It

    By Matt Grant  August 7, 2019
    The Hub

    The New York Times profiles Louise Erdrich’s Native American-focused bookstore.

    By Dan Sheehan  July 25, 2019
    Reading

    On Opening Ghana’s First Subscription-Model Library

    By Sylvia Arthur  July 25, 2019
    Interview with a Bookstore

    At D.C.’s Newest Book Store, the Best Customers are Toddlers

    By Interview with a Bookstore  July 19, 2019
    The Hub

    Indie booksellers urge you to resist the siren call of Amazon Prime Day.

    By Dan Sheehan  July 15, 2019
    The Hub

    Chicago’s only black woman-owned bookstore is open for business.

    By Dan Sheehan  July 12, 2019
    Libraries

    I Found My American Dream at the Public Library

    By Daniela Petrova  July 12, 2019
    The Hub

    20 young booksellers have just won some of James Patterson’s money.

    By Dan Sheehan  July 11, 2019
    The Hub

    In memory of Michael Seidenberg, owner of Brazenhead Books.

    By David Burr Gerrard  July 9, 2019
    Interview with a Bookstore

    Interview with a Bookstore: Bluestockings

    By Interview with a Bookstore  June 27, 2019
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