From Temecula to Pasadena, people are asking me how to get rid of books. This is because I wrote about my long-overdue purge of my own shelves, which resulted in 250 books filling 10 boxes on my living room floor. “So, where did you take your boxes of perfectly good books? I have thousands,” says Cynthia Tuell of Upland. “Marie Kondo doesn’t seem to mind throwing lots of stuff away but I believe we need to reduce, reuse, recycle. Where did you recycle your books?”

In a world too full of heartache, can I really feel this sad about a store closure? Let me check. YES. EXCUSE ME, BUT DUH. Yes, absolutely yes. It’s not even a question. Well, then. I suppose my gut is yelling what my brain resists. I can indeed feel melancholy. We aren’t grading heartache on a curve, here. Each experience occupies its own space.

We booksellers have seen it all.

To independent booksellers, the enormous chain was once a threat. Now it’s vital to their survival. And it’s doing well.

New Yorkers still tell stories of browsing at Harlem’s Liberation Bookstore or spending the afternoon at Scribner’s.

Amazon is as dominant as ever—and its retail ambitions aren’t going anywhere. But booksellers can toast the end of its disastrous foray into their turf.

Amazon.com Inc said on Wednesday it plans to close all 68 of its brick-and-mortar bookstores, pop-ups and shops carrying toys and home goods in the United States and United Kingdom, ending some of its longest-running retail experiments.

Sale of 143-year-old family-owned business marks a further concentration of the industry

NK Jemison, Tomi Adyemi and other best-selling authors share their favorite bookstores in the USA.

Sophie Fornairon's independent bookshop has survived the rise of Amazon thanks to a French law that prohibits price discounting on new books, but she says the e-commerce giant's ability to undercut on shipping still skews the market against stores like hers.

In separate motions this week, lawyers for both Amazon and the Big Five publishers asked a federal court to dismiss the latest iteration of a potential class-action price-fixing claim filed on behalf of indie booksellers involving print trade books.

A few years ago, I’d had enough of Jeff Bezos and his greed and switched all my book buying to a small local bookstore.

Since May 2020, the American Booksellers Association memberships have increased.

AuthorSHARE, a royalty fund set up by two used booksellers with support from industry bodies, is calling for more retailers to participate

In the age of Amazon and e-books, these bookstores have faced more challenges than ever, but many have been able to persevere and remain treasured parts of their communities

Retailers complain that contract terms cement Amazon’s dominant position.

Before last month's Super Bowl, Foggy Pine Books was one of the thousands of small, locally owned businesses floundering amid the coronavirus pandemic. Nestled in the Appalachian town of Boone, North Carolina, the bookstore had calculated that it needed to sell a minimum of 1,350 books per month to stay open. In January, it had sold 836.

Through his City Lights bookstore and publishing imprint, Lawrence Ferlinghetti changed the country. Here's what we can learn from him.

Just before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, Mika Weaver ordered more than 300 puzzles for her Ottawa bookstore. Then all non-essential businesses were shut down. "I was up at night thinking, 'How am I going to pay for all those puzzles that came in?'" said Weaver, the owner of Singing Pebble Books on Main Street.

Independent booksellers are desperate for customers to return, and not just for an online reading.