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Indie booksellers had a solid 2021, but are uncertain as to what 2022 will hold.

Six Amazon employees were killed in an Edwardsville warehouse during a tornado, raising questions about whether the company did enough to help them.

A former bookseller and debut author says direct partnerships between booksellers and authors are mutually beneficial.

Handmade gifts and face-to-face connections are the reasons to shop local this year, say South Jersey small business owners.

Three indie booksellers/book lovers joined Talk of Iowa to discuss the best new books to give and receive this holiday season.

Handmade gifts and face-to-face connections are the reasons to shop local this year, say South Jersey small business owners.

The Raven Book Store survived 2020 by shipping books to customers across the country. Now, it's doubling down on the effort in a bigger location designed for "a new model of bookselling.”

The Raven Book Store survived 2020 by shipping books to customers across the country. Now, it's doubling down on the effort in a bigger location designed for "a new model of bookselling.”

(AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File) Like everything with Amazon, its marketplace is big. Small businesses like Steve Chou’s Bumblebee Linens can soar. But is the marketplace also destroying main street brick and mortar stores? In the third episode of our Amazon series, a look at the peaks and pits of Amazons marketplace for retail. Guests James Thomson, chief strategy officer and partner at Buy Box Experts, an agency that works with Amazon brands and brand investors. Co-founder of the Prosper Sho...

When Nina Barrett (Medill ‘87) expanded Bookends & Beginnings earlier this year, she hoped the bookstore’s new window on Sherman Avenue would increase its visibility. By late March, the window was serving a higher purpose: displaying copies of a bright orange booklet, titled “How to Resist Amazon and Why.” Barrett — and Bookends — are well acquainted with the zine’s message. The independent Evanston bookstore is the initial plaintiff in a class action lawsuit filed on March 25, wh...