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Book TV followed up with Janet Webster Jones and Alyson Jones Turner, mother and daughter owners of Source Booksellers in Detroit, about the impact of COVID-19 on their bookstore’s operation…

Blanche Richardson talked about Marcus Books, the oldest independent African-American bookstore in the country. She shared the store’s history and its importance to the community as a source…

Brief profiles of some of the book stores in Savannah, Georgia.

A list of some events scheduled to celebrate the July 14, 2015, of Go Set a Watchman, the second book by To Kill a Mockingbird author Harper Lee.

Panelists talked about the book business from the perspective of independent booksellers. This presentation was in the James Michener Non-Fiction Pavilion on the grounds of City Hall at the…

Dana Brigham spoke by video link from her store in Brookline, Massachusetts, Brookline Booksmith. It was named the “Bookstore of the Year” in 1998. She talked about the differences between t…

A panel discussion was held on the future of the book and of the book store. Jim Milliot moderated a panel that included a book store owner, a publisher, and a literary agent. The panelists …

Discussion with booksellers, Mitchell Kaplan, owner of Books & Books (Coral Gables, Florida) & Betsy Burton, co-owner of The King’s English (Salt Lake City, Utah) They were interviewed while…

Sarah Bagby talked about the local literary scene in Wichita, Kansas, and the state of the book business. She talked about her independent book store, Watermark Books, where she was intervie…

Philip McComish showed some of the items in the collection of Watermark West Rare Books, a division of Watermark Books and Cafe in Wichita, Kansas. He also talked about the state of the rare…

Full Circle Books owner Jim Tolbert talked about the literary scene in Oklahoma City and the state of the independent book business as well as about his own store. C-SPAN’s Local Content Veh…

Natalie and Edward Hughes talked about their used book store.

A tour of the American bookshop called Shakespeare and Company established in Paris in 1917 by Sylvia Beach. It was a bookstore, a lending library, and centre of activity and contact for Eng…

Jake Reiss, owner of Alabama Booksmith, talked about the literary scene in Birmingham and the market niche of signed copies for which his book store is known. C-SPAN’s Local Content Vehicles…

Sally Brewster talked about the relationship between independent bookstores and publishers. She was interviewed at Park Roads Books - a longtime independent bookstore in Charlotte. C-SPAN’s …

Liz Taylor talked about Poor Richard’s Books, a longtime fixture in downtown Frankfort, Kentucky. C-SPAN’s Local Content Vehicles (LCVs) on their “2011 LCV Cities Tour” were in Frankfort, Ke…

Sarah Weinman talked by telephone from New York City about the July 18, 2011, announcement of the liquidation of the Borders Group of book stores.

Carla Jimenez talked about starting her store, Inkwood Books, the only full-service independent bookstore in Tampa. C-SPAN’s Local Content Vehicles (LCVs) made a stop in their “2011 LCV Citi…

Ray Hinst talked about the history of the family book store and the state of the book industry. C-SPAN’s Local Content Vehicles (LCVs) made a stop in their “2011 LCV Cities Tour” in Tampa/St…

Bradley Graham talked by telephone about the future of Politics & Prose Bookstore. Earlier in the week he and his wife, Lissa Muscatine, had committed to purchase the independent book store.