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Bookish Games To Play at a Bookstore Sleepover

Bookish Games To Play at a Bookstore Sleepover

What Do Booksellers Read?

Who knows books better than a bookseller? Here, booksellers from a few fantastic bookshops let us know what they’re reading — and what you should read too.

Innovative Indies: Shop Independent No Matter Where You Live

For obsessive readers, it’s hard to beat the joy of a well-stocked and smartly-staffed bookstore; one of the greatest joys ...

Your Local Brick & Mortar Bookstore Is A Privilege

Last week, I went on a trip to Toronto to see a friend. When we were hashing out details for ...

Advance Reader Copies: To Buy, or Not to Buy?

One of the biggest perks of working at a bookstore is all of the advance reader copies, or ARCs, you ...

Authors Put Indies First on Small Business Saturday

Indies First on Small Business Saturday was a plan to get authors to volunteer as booksellers-for-a-day, supporting their local independent book stores.

A Book-Binge Survival Guide

Close your eyes and imagine. Oh wait, you need your eyes to read this- scratch that. Anyway, the holidays have ...

The Importance of Queer Friendly Bookstores

October was LGBT History Month, and like every other month in our recent history, there was exciting progress–welcome to the ...

Sexism on the Shelves?

YA Author Rae Carson (whose Fire & Thorns trilogy is awesome, by the way, go read it) recently tweeted a ...

6 Cool Things Bookstores Do in Addition to Selling Books

Bookstores sell books. We’re all clear on that, right? But lots of stores — the smart ones — are going ...