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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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.