#independent bookstores

[bookishfreedom]

i spent... wayyy too much money at Powell's this weekend. but when I end up in a bookstore the size of an entire city block? what else is a girl to do

[teainkstudies]

discovered the loveliest combination bookstore & wine bar in austin, texas this weekend 💌

[the-forest-library]

these books have such a pleasing shelf presence

Book Beat - Oak Pak, MI

[x22817]

📚 book haul from the bookstore crawl 📚

I'll give you this bone... if you give me that book

[deramin2]

If you’re looking for audio books (like What Doesn’t Break), please check out libro.fm instead of Amazon.

You choose an independent bookstore and the sale goes through them, insuring a rich diversity of local booksellers remains in business.

DRM free downloads. It’s yours forever without restrictions. Or play it through the website/app.

Bookstores also have curation pages to help you find your next favorite book.

Playlists to help you find books on a theme, such as why Amazon is horrible, voting rights, Latino authors, or free audio books.

Excellent app for managing and listening to your audiobooks, including tags, bookmarks, playback speed, chapter menu, and sleep timers (I like setting the timer to stop at the end of the chapter so I can absorb things.)

They’re an employee-owned Social Purpose Corporation. They serve people over profits and aren’t incentivized to make the service worse to squeeze money out of customers, book stores, or publishers.

They are committed to uplifting historically excluded voices. You can find so many cool books being promoted there that mainstream bookstores like Amazon ignore.

Membership subscription like Audible to get cheaper credits, or buy books outright as you want them.

[creator-of-calm-queer-chaos]

Help out an independent bookshop by telling me your favourite underrated/not super popular YA books!

Hi all! I work at a small independent bookshop and we are in the process of expanding our YA section. I figured it would be a waste to ignore the fantastic nerdy community we have here so I figured I’d ask y’all: 

What are your favourite underrated YA books? What good YA books do you know of that you rarely see in libraries or small bookshops? 

Thank you all so much and happy reading!!

[twincitiesgeek]

The MN Bookstore Guide to Black Friday and Small Business Saturday 2024

Our annual guide to Black Friday and Small Business Saturday at Minnesota's independent bookstores is here! See what your favorite local shop has planned.

Thanksgiving is here, and as always, lots of Minnesota indie bookstores are offering sales and specials on Black Friday, a.k.a. Plaid Friday, and Small Business Saturday, November 29–November 30, 2024. Here, you’ll find information on what all your favorite shops throughout the state are doing on those days as well as a few sales and specials happening on Thursday and extending beyond this…

[mercerislandbooks]

Independent Bookstore Day 2024!

As we welcome April, we know all you Indie Bookstore aficionados are getting ready for your (and our) favorite day of the year: Independent Bookstore Day! Celebrated across the country, here in the Puget Sound area we have so many fantastic Independent Bookstores to visit, it really is an embarrassment of riches for book lovers. Whether this is your first—or tenth—Independent Bookstore Day, we hope you stop by to see us at Island Books and enjoy a day of discovering new bookstores or revisiting old favorites.

At Island Books we’ll have lots of treats and snacks throughout the day. We’ll have some of the famous Island Books typewriters set up for visitors to try. Plus a $100 gift card to Island Books will be hidden in our children's section! Our staff rec shelves will be stocked and you can check out all our seasonal tables and browse our various sections, including our new romance section, to find that perfect serendipitous read!

If you're an audiobook fan, as many of the staff at Island Books are, we are one of the lucky stores to have a Libro.fm Golden Ticket (good for 12 free audiobook credits) hidden away in our shelves. And check out the Libro.fm website for a limited time offer for those starting a new membership!

For those of you who REALLY want to celebrate all of our amazing Independent Bookstores, once again we will be doing the Passport Challenge! Pick up your passport at any bookstore starting Saturday April 27th, and you have until Monday May 6th to visit all 28 participating bookstores, get a stamp, and earn a one-time 25% discount at each participating store, valid until April 25th, 2025. For past champs, if you haven’t used your current discount yet, you’re running out of time! There will also be an intermediate prize for those who make it to five participating bookstores — check out the Seattle Independent Bookstore Day 2024 website for all the details and other FAQ’s.

So mark your calendars, make lists of those books you’ve been meaning to pick up, plan your routes, and we’ll see you on April 27th!

— Lori

[thistle-nightshade]

How to Support Indie Bookstores w/o Leaving your House

Bookshop.org is amazing! If you select your bookstore on the site, they will get 30% off the list price of anything you buy. If you don't select a store, that profit goes into a profit sharing pool that gets split between all the bookstores who have signed up.

Libro.fm offers a similar situation for audio books. You have to choose a bookstore to be able to listen on Libro, but a portion of your purchases and subscriptions goes to that store.

Kobo for ebooks - this one you need to find the bookstore's affiliate link first. Kobo only gives stores credits for new sign ups with their affiliate link.

[thenewwei]

The Brotherhood by Tejas Desai is free today on Amazon! Get your copy today!

[wraith-demjin]

I just found out Book Depository is closing??!! I'm so sad I loved it so much. I've ordered so many books from there and they have books I can't find anywhere else!!

[bookishfreedom]

spent my independent bookstore day the BEST way 🩷

[michellegflye]

It's Complicated...

Last year one of the local bars held a singles meet-and-greet where people were given their choices of cups. Red for in a committed relationship, green for available and yellow for “It’s complicated.” I was interviewed for a local television news story last week. If you’d like to watch it, you can here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5Rr4vjwxjk&t=15s. The reporter was young, enthusiastic and…

[the-forest-library]

Ok, folks, I made it to six independent bookstores today, and I am exhausted.

[bittenlit]

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Kidlit author Leah Johnson is launching her independent bookstore, Loudmouth Books! I recently read and loved her sapphic YA debut, You Should See Me in a Crown, which won a Stonewall Honor in 2021. Very exciting to see new Black-owned indie bookstores, especially when they're focused on diverse and banned books!

You can support Loudmouth Books by ordering through Bookshop here (they've got some cool recommendation lists already), or donating to the Loudmouth Fund to help offset opening costs and hear more about the bookstore's mission here!

[nicolagriffith]

Menewood Q&A

When can I buy MENEWOOD? Where can I buy it? Will there be an audiobook? How can I get an advance copy? Everything you need to know to get hold of MENEWOOD on (or before!) publication on October 3.

Bookshop.org | Amazon.com | Apple Books | Barnes & Noble | Amazon.co.uk | Phinney Books | Target After I posted on Monday about the ARC of MENEWOOD I started to get many questions on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter about pre-orders, publication dates, review copies, audio editions, word count/page length, and more. This post is designed to address those questions. When is the book coming…