Over twenty years ago, I walked into the most amazing bookstore. It was enormous, easily three times the size of any bookstore I'd been ...

I thought I'd share a pair of articles from the New York Times . First, the big news: Harry Potter Author Wins Copyright Ruling This wa...

I'm proud to feature a guest post about the BookHampton bookstores in New York. Thanks so much to Rocco Staino for his in-depth post ab...

Last December, I was very sad to report that A Likely Story went out of business. It was a wonderful independent children's bookstore...

I'm a bookseller at an independent toy store. Or, perhaps I'm a permanent contestant on a game show called "Name That Children...

Wizards Wireless is starting a new series of profiles highlighting wonderful independent bookstores and terrific libraries. I'm a big fa...

I recently had the pleasure of visiting one of the legendary independent bookstores in the United States: Powells in Portland, Oregon. All ...

I hate it when small, wonderful independent bookstores go out business. The Washington Post has a story today about the sudden closure of ...

Okay, so there are a lot of differences. Too many to go into on this blog. But, let me give you a fascinating example involving a particular...

Thanks to the wonderful people on the CCBC -Net listserv , my list of bookstores has doubled! All bookstores listed are independent and are ...

You may have noticed that my list of independent bookstores on the right-hand side of this blog has grown quite a bit. I originally posted ...

There's a relatively new trend called bookstore tourism ... which, as I understand it, is organized bus tours of book lovers to cities ...