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Jun

28

2022

The Great Summer Reading Guide Launches

Feed your summer reading habit and support your favorite NW indie by shopping The Great Summer Reading Guide! This summer, many independent bookstores will share favorite titles through email newsletter, websites, and bookshop.org collections. We’ll feature some of the titles here, too, to help you remember that whether your local independent bookstore has air conditioning …

Feb

14

2022

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Show a bookstore some love with a purchase in-store, online, or old-school over the phone. You can find bookstores near you or near others you love using the indie bookstore finder on indiebound.org. You can also give audiobooks (and still support independent bookstores) through libro.fm as long as you know your sweetie’s email address! Enjoy …

Mar

31

2020

From Dave Eggers for McSweeneys.net:
“Bookstores Can Be Saved”

An excerpt from the Dave Eggers piece from McSweeneys.net March 27, 2020 We will lose a lot in these next months. We’ve already lost too much. One thing we don’t need to lose is our independent bookstores. You have watched all the episodes of Norsemen. I’ve watched them twice. Now we need books. For so many, …

Nov

28

2019

Thankful for Readers

This was originally posted in the newsletter from Broadway Books in Portland, OR. The holidays are just around the corner! We invite you to join us for a variety of holiday events at Broadway Books over the next several weeks, including a celebration of Brian Doyle and a new collection of his essays on December …

Feb

15

2019

Roundabout Books exterior

Roundabout Books’ Matched Crowdsourcing
Campaign Kicks Off

Roundabout Books in Bend, OR started an indiegogo campaign to help keep the bookstore, which opened in 2016, healthy and growing. The campaign’s flexible goal is to reach $40,000 in the next month; as of this write-up, they are over a quarter of the way to their goal. Check out the snazzy campaign they’ve designed, …

Oct

16

2018

Susan Richmond

Yakima Herald Features Susan Richmond, Owner of Inklings Bookshop, Yakima, WA

By Donald W. Meyers for yakimaherald.com. Be sure to click through to the original article to see the great photo! For 18 years, Yakima Valley bibliophiles have been able to satisfy their cravings at Inklings Bookshop. Owner Susan Richmond didn’t want to be a business owner, but she liked books, and being with people who …

May

15

2018

Kid's Guide to Boise

Rediscovered Books Launches New Publishing Division

Boise’s independent bookstore makes its publishing debut with A Kid’s Guide to Boise Rediscovered Publishing, a new division of downtown Boise’s Rediscovered Books, will be releasing A Kid’s Guide to Boise by Rick Just on May 29, 2018. The book is a complete guide for what to do, where to go, what to eat all around …

May

1

2018

1

remark

Independent Bookstore Day 2018 in Review: Oh, What a Party!

On Saturday, April 28, 2018, people celebrated Independent Bookstore Day around the country. The Pacific Northwest was chock-full of bookish delight! We love this recap of Independent Bookstore Day/ Seattle Bookstore Day from adventurers/bloggers Emily and Aaron of Two Dusty Travelers: “twodustytravelers 12 hours. 2 ferries. 123 miles. 19 independent bookstores. 2 @seabookstoreday Grand Champions!! 🎉🏆 We bought …

Jan

23

2018

The Things I Learned When I Became a Bookseller

by Bart King for www.orgeonlive.com, Jan. 13, 2018   The boy was nose-deep in a book about a narwhal, and he wasn’t about to hand it over. “You need to put that on the counter so I can buy it, Jack,” said his mother. Jack’s knuckles whitened as he shot us a distrustful look. “But …

Nov

24

2017

Jason Reynolds Indies First spokesperson

Indies First & Small Business Saturday 11/25/17

Author Jason Reynolds is the official spokesperson for the 5th Annual Indies First celebration of independent bookstores! On Saturday, he’ll be supporting his local bookstores in Washington, DC as a celebrity bookseller, but authors and booksellers have great things planned all around the country. The American Booksellers Association compiled an interactive map so you can …

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