Bookshops

After a decade of downsizing, the beloved bookseller is seeing a resurgence thanks in part to TikTok's #BookTok and a rise in so-called third spaces.

A massive, multi-story building in the Washington, DC, neighborhood of Georgetown welcomed back a former occupant this month that had been gone for over a decade.

In a move that's perhaps more symbolic than business-minded, Barnes & Noble, America's largest retail bookseller, has reclaimed the flagship store it vacated in 2013.  Read more

Independent booksellers Topping & Company will open a new bookshop over multiple floors in central York in autumn 2025.

At just under 6,000 square feet, it is set to become "the largest independent bookshop in the country".

Large-scale, algorithmic bookselling will never outlive the necessity of local stores like ours

Three years ago, Erin Decker was a middle school librarian in Kissimmee, Florida, increasingly frustrated by the state's book bans and worried that she couldn't make a difference remaining in her job.

So, she and fellow librarian Tania Galiñanes thought of a way to fight back.