Independent bookstores, and booksellers, get a lifeline just when they need it most.

Bookshop.org is looking to generate revenue for independent book stores by moving sales, and affiliate links, away from Amazon and toward independent bookstores.

After closing up shop that day, there was fear the bookstore might have to close permanently. But overnight, something unexpected happened.

The holiday season is the busiest time of year for many retailers, including the country's 2,500 independent bookstores, which, despite Amazon's growing dominance, are flourishing.

Books have always had the ability to transport readers, whisking them away to faraway lands. Cozy up and plot your next getaway at these unique bookstores around the world.

A growing number of shoppers will be supporting their independent neighborhood bookstores on Small Business Saturday

Word on the Water, a floating bookstore on a 1920s Dutch barge, was founded in 2011 by Paddy Screech and Jon Privett. It is currently moored in Regents Canal in King’s Cross, London. * What’s…

As Weller Book Works celebrates its 90th anniversary — a millennia in bookstore years — on Aug. 17, its owners Tony and Catherine Weller look back on their bookstore’s history, how the store is doing now and their plans for the future.

This bookstore in Shanghai will make you feel like you've entered an alternate universe with stairs on the ceiling.

Book Culture, based in the same Queens neighborhood where Amazon wanted to set up shop, says it will be forced to close if the city or state doesn’t offer assistance.

Popular novels, technical tomes and self-published books are pirated and sold on Amazon. That may actually be helping the company extend its grip on the book business.

Independent bookshops are thriving because they understand readers’ tastes better than an Amazon algorithm.

That price tag includes all of the book megachain's debt. Elliott's acquisition of the largest retail bookseller in the U.S. comes less than a year after it bought Waterstones, the largest in the U.K.

About a decade ago, Heather Reisman, the chief executive of Canada’s largest bookstore chain, was having tea with the novelist Margaret Atwood when Ms. Atwood inadvertently gave her an idea for a new product. Ms. Atwood announced that she planned to go home, put on a pair of cozy socks and curl up with a book. Ms. Reisman thought about how appealing that sounded. Not long after, her company, Indigo, developed its own brand of plush “reading socks.” They quickly became one of Indigo’s signature gift items.

Every book has to earn its spot in one of the world’s leading public library collections. Here’s what it takes.

It’s a tale as old as time, or, at least, the internet: None of us are reading any more, the physical book is dead, Amazon has killed the independent bookstore, and it’s all only going to get worse. But this year, the story looks like just that—a fiction. We are buying books—especially the kind with physical pages—and we’re doing so, increasingly, in well-loved indie bookstores.

After the decline of feminist bookstores, there's a new trend emerging: mobile, black-owned book operations.

It’s the time of year when the sanctuary of the bookstore transforms into a battlefield. Here’s how to make life easier on both sides of the counter

In general, I will say that blurbs are a blight on the publishing industry, both for people seeking blurbs and the writers asked to blurb.

Two days into a strike by antiquarian booksellers against the Amazon unit AbeBooks, the company capitulated.