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Home » independent bookstores

Tag: independent bookstores

Nina Barrett is taking on Amazon.
Posted inArts & Culture

Nina Barrett vs. Amazon

by Rebecca Aizin May 18, 2021August 18, 2021

The owner of Evanston’s Bookends & Beginnings is taking on the retail giant in an effort to save independent bookstores.

Posted inArts & Culture

The Chicago Independent Bookstore Map

by Salem Collo-Julin and Amber Huff July 24, 2020August 18, 2021

Chicago has been frequently touted as a writer’s town; a place where writers can work on their craft and thrive. Of course writers are nothing without an audience to read them, and the bevy of bookstores in Chicagoland is one indication that we’re also a reader’s town—not just a place where people make books, but […]

Posted inBlogs

What to know about Amazon Books, now open on Southport

by Aimee Levitt March 22, 2017August 18, 2021

The online retailer ventures into the real world.

Posted inBlogs

Roscoe Village gets a bookstore, will lack for nothing

by Aimee Levitt November 21, 2014August 18, 2021

Erika VanDam hopes to turn her new bookstore, Roscoe Books, into a community institution.

Posted inBest of Chicago

Best Indie Bookstore in a Chain-Filled Neighborhood

by Gwynedd Stuart June 25, 2014August 18, 2021

I wouldn’t be surprised to find out the place was run by librarians.

Posted inArts & Culture

In their words: Mike Levine, acquisitions editor, Northwestern University Press

by Julia Thiel April 5, 2012August 19, 2021

Mike Levine of Northwestern University Press on how to deliver books to readers

Posted inNews & Politics

Everybody’s Watching Chicago’s Book Wars

by Mel Miles July 15, 1993August 20, 2021

With more chains and independents competing here than ever before, booksellers around the nation are wondering who will survive.

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