Readers around the world cooed last month when a Welsh bookseller announced he was giving away his shop to a regular customer. It was a lovely story, but as an ex-bookseller of five years, I could only dwell on the harsh realities this unsuspecting man would inherit: slow days, stocktaking and, unavoidably, a few regular oddballs.

Sales are falling and critics say the company lacks a direction, sometimes seeming to give priority to sales of gifts and tchotchkes over books.

Critics see the Department of Corrections rules as part of a nationwide "war on books."

Owner avoids having to close Bookends in Cardigan by raffling it off to customers who spent more than £20

You might think of libraries as old fashioned, or irrelevant in the age of the internet. You’d be wrong.

These sixteen incredible bookstores have both the looks and the books.

A new book by a political science professor, based on a national survey of 1,100 college students conducted over a three-year period, suggests it could have something to do with Harry Potter.

There is no question I’m asked more than some variant of “how do you find the time to read so much?”

The Perfume Collector by Kathleen Tessaro is a story of identity and memory, family and the familiar. The story transports readers to 1920s New York, Monte Carlo, Paris, and London as an ordinary hotel maid is transformed into an extraordinary woman who wills a small fortune to another ordinary women in the 1950s.

A startup called Zola Books has paired with the popular novelist Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler’s Wife, to try to save brick-and-mortar shops.

In his new book, "One Summer: America, 1927," author Bill Bryson explores the turmoil and triumph of a few months in American history.

Last summer in a used bookstore, I happened on an enormous, bound volume of Life magazine, from July–September 1945. I opened to the very first story in the first issue, July 2, 1945. The headline read:   “This Is Art by Piet Mondrian: Mondrian Hated Curves.” Can you imagine a...

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Enter a magical new bookstore in Romania that sells books, music, movies and a peek into the past.

The hottest books on sale this week.

One Day author David Nicholls has spoken of how “a town without a bookshop is missing something”, as figures show that 57 independent bookshops closed in the UK last year. According to the Booksellers Association, the number of independent booksellers in the UK continues to decline. Ten years ago, in 2005, there were 1,535; five years ago, in 2010, there were 1,159; and in 2014, there were 939.

For book lovers, there’s no more magical place than the local bookstore. Endless shelves of stories and characters, all at your eager fingertips. And while most of us have probably spent a significant amount of time wandering the aisles, few of us know what goes on behind the scenes. Here, some insights into the life of a bookstore, gleaned from the people who keep the shelves stocked.

A new-style pulp fiction in Malaysia has tapped into a desire for escapism among younger Malaysians as their country has become more socially conservative.

La Hune, in Paris, is to close this week. Its end is a deep loss to me, and to civil society. By Adam Gopnik.

Dmitry shows off a novel (pardon the pun) way to reuse damaged books. Yes the inner book lover in me is screaming blue murder, but it's still a nice idea.

Yoshiyuki Morioka – proprietor of the recently opened Morioka Shoten (Morioka Bookstore) in Ginza, Tokyo – just made bookstore browsing a whole lot easier. In fact, by only carrying one book at any given time, his tiny boutique has eliminated the whole idea altogether.

From a bohemian Parisian temple of reading to a bookshop with hidden animals: to mark Independent Bookshop Week, here are 10 of the best around the world (compiled with the help of our readers)

The National Historic site is the latest purveyor of products to stop selling items bearing the Confederate flag following a massacre at a black church in Charleston, S.C. The park will continue to sell historical items bearing the Confederate flag.

When Gil Salk closed his used and rare bookstore in 2003, he still had 150,000 books. Salk, 72, of Hebron, operated his store, Books & Birds, from 1980 to 2003. It had been in Manchester since 1985. The store was built on Salk's own love of reading. "My grandfather owned a couple of glass-front bookcases full of interesting books," Salk said. "I used to love going through those. It stayed with me."

Clean, contemporary and unique. Those are the words that 26-year-old Molly Hatch and her sister, Emma, 27, use to describe their one-of-a-kind storefront, Appreciation Society, in Savannah's Starland District. “Technically we’re the first art book and zine store, but I was surprised there wasn’t one here with all of the SCAD students,” Molly said. “Art books aren’t just for one type of artist... Any type of medium you can think of there is a book..."

Harper Lee's 'Go Set a Watchman' finally arrives.

The US Authors Guild is demanding that publishers start paying 50% of the revenue an e-book generates to authors, instead of 25%. They are trying to get the big

A few weeks ago, I found myself in what looked more like an Ikea showroom than the ragged used bookstore of my youth.

An Adelaide bookshop owner is gently raided by police for selling copies of American Psycho that were not plastic-wrapped.