Growing numbers of women in UK are joining forces with friends to run independent bookshops

Book prices in Wales need to increase for businesses to survive rising publishing costs, an industry body has warned. The Books Council of Wales (BCW) said prices had been "artificially low" to encourage customers to keep on buying. One Welsh publisher said the price of paper increased by 40% last year, with ink and glue prices rising too.

Only a dozen copies of the book were sold in one store at midnight despite staff expecting queues at the door.

The war over children's books is depressing. As a reset, we asked parents from across the political spectrum to tell us which books they consider essential.

Indie bookshops across the state are embracing change, to thrive and stay alive. But a lot depends on the upcoming holiday season.

If you’re looking for a calm, quiet place to get lost in a good story, there’s nothing quite like a local bookstore. But with the rise of big box stores and online retail, indie shops have faced stiff competition. None of that seems to have deterred the owners of the Book Beat in Oak Park, though. The store, tucked into an unassuming corner of a strip mall, has been thriving for 40 years now.

Writers sounded the alarm after learning Barnes & Noble stores would only be stocking hardcovers with proven sales records. Here's more on what this means.

It’s a place whose real boundaries and character are much more than its physical dimensions.

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.