Main Street/Shop Local

The news reports are rolling in as independent businesses nationwide once again prepare for the annual shop-local event featuring Waldo.

More than 500 bookstores celebrated this year’s Independent Bookstore Day on April 28. BTW spoke with several stores that reported a bump in sales and high energy and enthusiasm among customers.

The national celebration of Independent Bookstore Day will take place on Saturday, April 28. Here are some last-minute reminders.

More than 500 indie booksellers across the country will be celebrating Independent Bookstore Day on Saturday, April 28. Here’s what some of them have planned.

Prime Numbers, a new report from ABA and Civic Economics, reveals the continuing — and increasing — loss of jobs and essential state and municipal revenue as a result of the growing retail dominance of Amazon.

Indie bookstores can offer the free titles from Libro.fm to their customers on April 28 as a thank-you gift for supporting their local bookstore.

Here are some tips to help spread the word about Independent Bookstore Day, which will be celebrated by more than 500 independent bookstores on April 28.

The Independent Bookstore Day Marketing-in-a-Mailer contains signage, stickers, teasers, shelf-talkers, and balloons to help bookstores promote the event. The kit costs $20 and orders are due March 15.

ABA member booksellers have until Thursday, March 1, to sign up for the seventh annual celebration of Find Waldo Local, the shop local scavenger hunt held every July at small businesses nationwide.

The fourth annual Independent Bookstore Day will be celebrated at more than 490 independent bookstores across the country on Saturday, April 28.