The owner of Evanston’s Bookends & Beginnings is taking on the retail giant in an effort to save independent bookstores.
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The Chicago Independent Bookstore Map
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 […]
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What to know about Amazon Books, now open on Southport
The online retailer ventures into the real world.
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Roscoe Village gets a bookstore, will lack for nothing
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
I wouldn’t be surprised to find out the place was run by librarians.
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In their words: Mike Levine, acquisitions editor, Northwestern University Press
Mike Levine of Northwestern University Press on how to deliver books to readers
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Everybody’s Watching Chicago’s Book Wars
With more chains and independents competing here than ever before, booksellers around the nation are wondering who will survive.