New Booksellers

Booksellers take tour of Michigan indies; Books & Books expanding in Florida; Queer and feminist bookstore opens in Mississippi; Magic City Books opening in Oklahoma; Bookery Manchester set for spring opening; Eureka Books celebrating 30th year; Indie bookstores help Seattle become UNESCO “City of Literature”

Local entrepreneur Lorielle J. Hollaway is looking forward to bringing a multicultural children’s bookstore to a historic St. Petersburg neighborhood.

Simon & Schuster is the latest publisher to announce a program specially designed to support new independent bookstores that have opened or are just opening. 

Brier Books opens in Kentucky; Book & Puppet Co. opens in Pennsylvania; Books & Mortar opens outpost; Indie publisher Two Dollar Radio opens bookstore; San Francisco’s Dog Eared Books marks 25 years; Phoenix Books celebrates move, anniversary; Ellen Plumb’s wins grant to buy Espresso Book Machine; Read Herring is new name for NewSouth; Country Bookshop starting publishing service; BookBar founds children’s book festival

Bookburgh opens in northern New York; Powell’s is setting for artist’s photos, book; Fabled Bookshop coming to Waco; Dog Ears Bookstore starts afterschool program; Branches Books & Gifts participates in fall festival; Cellar Door Books marks five years; Buffalo Street Books raises funds

Politics and Prose opening at The Wharf; Lake Worth’s Book Cellar opens after Irma; Argos Brewhouse & Bookseller hosts grand opening; Horizon Books marks 25 years

The third quarter of 2017 saw 19 ABA member store openings and five sales of existing businesses to new owners. Among the openings are a bookstore pub, a mobile bookstore, and new branches of established bookstores.

Bards Alley cuts the red ribbon; Kew & Willow to open on weekends; Phoenix Books marks 10 years, starts writing scholarship; Copperfish Books celebrates fifth birthday; Gulliver’s Books moving to new home; Moon Palace on the move; Upstate New York bookstores create regional bookshop tour; Waucoma Bookstore gets visit from governor in wake of wildfire

Ann Patchett touts indie bookstores on CBS Sunday Morning; The Book Cellar set for October opening; Duende District celebrates Hispanic heritage; Arizona’s Book Vault gets bigger; Eastwind Books named small business of the month; Scattered Books’ video goes viral

The owner of St. Croix’s Undercover Books is opening a new independent store to meet demand in the North Hills of Pittsburgh.

San Diego residents Seth Marko and Jen Powell have purchased Anne Mery’s West Grove Collective, a book and gift store they are rebranding as The Book Catapult, a general-interest bookstore.

Mark and Donna Paz Kaufman of The Bookstore Training Group of Paz & Associates have announced plans to launch Story & Song Neighborhood Bookstore Bistro in Fernandina Beach, Florida.

Wheatberry Books plans December opening; McNally Jackson heads to Brooklyn; Lahaska Bookshop opens in Pennsylvania; Books of Wonder expands in New York City; New owners for Dunaway Books; Ellen Plumb’s celebrates first anniversary