From KUOW, the Seattle area NPR station, on Tuesday May 20, 2025: Patricia Murphy and Katie Campbell reported Tuesday afternoon: After more than 100 years in business as an independent bookstore, the University Book Store in Seattle’s U District will soon be home to Barnes & Noble. The bookseller, which has about 600 stores across …
Amanda MacNaughton has worked at Paulina Springs Books for six years, and she’s been in the book world for seventeen. Her first bookselling job was at her college bookstore in Illinois, when she was eighteen. Since then she’s worked at the Deschutes Public Library and at Barnes & Noble in Bend, OR. Tired of corporate bookselling, she …
Brent Steele, the general book manager at OSU Bookstore in Corvallis, OR, and a former manager for Barnes & Noble, posted this rant on his Facebook page in response to the more than 1,800 people who’ve joined the “Save Our Encino Barnes & Noble” page on Facebook. I’m quite aware of the backlash I will …
