Amber Salazar is the kind of idealist you just knew would end up running a bookstore — a lifelong reader who felt angered “to the core” as she learned of book bans around the country. A ...

Santa Fe resident Janet Bailey has owned and operated her own independent bookstore in Chicago, Barbara’s Bookstore, for many years, so she is hardly a neophyte to the bookselling trade. Even so, her ...

In 2016, there were 1,244 members in the American Booksellers Association, at 1,749 locations. As of this month, the ABA has 2,863 individual members, at 3,281 locations. More than 200 other ...

SEATTLE — There’s a new bookstore in Seattle’s University District. Barnes & Noble and University Book Store just opened a ...

Drag Story Hour, which will celebrate 10 years of fabulous wigs and picture books this December, has launched a book club, Queer Visitors, for LGBTQ+ adults and allies. Starting in September, Queer ...

American Booksellers Association announced that it is reorganizing its education department following the departures of two ...

Independent bookselling is not a field for fortune seekers: Most local stores, whether run by retirees, bookworms or those switching careers in middle age, have some sense of higher purpose.