Archive for December, 2011


Happy Holidays from Indie Booksellers

John Kremer, Book Marketing Consultant

I wish you all a blessed and happy holiday period and a very abundant New Year. John Kremer     Related Posts:Indie Bookstores: February 2012 News and StoriesIndependent Bookstores Have a ChanceShop with Indie Booksellers This Holiday SeasonSkylight Books – Los Angeles, CaliforniaBooks & Books – Coral Gables, FloridaBooksellers: Matchmakers for the MindWhy Readers Should [...]

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Note: We are always working to keep the bookstore listings up to date. If you find any new information on any bookstore, please email details to johnfkremer@gmail.com. Thanks.

Top 700 BookstoresTop 700 Independent Bookstores Data Files — This list started out as 500, then 600, then 700, and now over 750 top general interest bookstores. It includes names of the book buyers and event coordinators, address, phone, fax, email, website, and other information about each bookstore.

You will be able to download six different formats (your choice of one or all) as well as an information sheet to let you know what is contained in the various data files. Data file download, $40.00. If you find any errors in any listing, we guarantee to hunt down the error and correct it for you immediately.


Take the One Book Pledge – and Save Indie Booksellers

Bookshop Santa Cruz started up a campaign to get book buyers to buy just one more book a month from local independent bookstores rather than from Amazon.com or other online retailers. Send us your name and we’ll add you to our growing list of people who recognize the importance of independent bookstores to the health [...]

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Independent Bookstores Have a Chance

Independent Bookstores Have a Chance – The closing of Borders, the building of communities, and the shop local movement give local booksellers a boost First there were the bookstore chains, then Amazon, then digital books, all seeming to threaten the very existence of the brick-and-mortar bookstore. Yet, in the wake of the recent closing of [...]

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Book Authors: Adopt an Indie Bookstore

In recent months, several book authors have adopted independent bookstores. Novelist Lisa Tucker, author of The Winters in Bloom, adopted Towne Book Center & Café of Collegeville, Pennslyvania. As part of her adoption, she has taught writing classes at the bookstore. ========== And just recently, Susan Gregg Gilmore, author of Looking for Salvation at the [...]

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