Indie bookstores Archives

Pandemic-Era Booksellers: Doing Well a Year Later

Owners of bookstores that opened during pandemic precautions can now focus on personal connections with customers and community building.

Zibby Owens, a podcaster and influencer who launched her own publishing company, has now opened up a bookstore in Santa Monica.

Marketing your book to bookstores—like marketing your book anywhere else—requires research and shoe leather.

The Golden Notebook bookstore in Woodstock, New York, is launching Golden Notebook Press.

Unpredictability permeates all aspects of bookstore operations, including inventory selection, title availability, and mail delivery.

The latest in news and trends, publishing and politics, new imprint announcements, and marketing tools.

Links of interest covering trends, self-publishing, and marketing.

Independent stores have been doing well—with memberships at ABA up for seven straight years—but they face issues of long-term sustainability.