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Where to dispose of unwanted books? Try a library bookstore
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?”
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Another local bookstore bites the dust. This time it's my favorite one on earth
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.
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What Kind of Bookstore Browser Are You?
We booksellers have seen it all.
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How Barnes & Noble Went From Villain to Hero
To independent booksellers, the enormous chain was once a threat. Now it’s vital to their survival. And it’s doing well.
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Remembrance of Bookstores Past
New Yorkers still tell stories of browsing at Harlem’s Liberation Bookstore or spending the afternoon at Scribner’s.
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Good Riddance to Amazon’s Terrible Bookstores
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.
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Amazon to shut its bookstores and other shops as its grocery chain expands
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.
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Waterstones acquires Blackwell’s, the UK’s biggest independent bookseller
Sale of 143-year-old family-owned business marks a further concentration of the industry
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Famous authors share their favorite US bookstores
NK Jemison, Tomi Adyemi and other best-selling authors share their favorite bookstores in the USA.
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France moves to shield its book industry from Amazon
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.
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Publishers, Amazon Move to Dismiss Booksellers’ Antitrust Suit
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.
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Kicking the Amazon addiction, or kicking it down the road
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.
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Against the odds, many indie bookstores managed to weather the pandemic storm
Since May 2020, the American Booksellers Association memberships have increased.
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Authors to earn royalties on secondhand books for first time
AuthorSHARE, a royalty fund set up by two used booksellers with support from industry bodies, is calling for more retailers to participate
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Inside the World’s Most Beloved Independent Bookstores
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
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Amazon colluded with publishers to fix book prices, class-action suit alleges
Retailers complain that contract terms cement Amazon’s dominant position.
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How an endorsement from Tom Hanks and Stephen Colbert saved a small bookstore
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.
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How a San Francisco bookstore owner made America freer, braver and more interesting
Through his City Lights bookstore and publishing imprint, Lawrence Ferlinghetti changed the country. Here's what we can learn from him.
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For independent booksellers, the pandemic has been the start of a new chapter
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.
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Your Local Bookstore Wants You to Know That It’s Struggling
Independent booksellers are desperate for customers to return, and not just for an online reading.
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