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Indie Bookstores Rock!

Photograph of the staff inside indie bookstore The Open Book located in Warrenton, Virginia

Indie bookstores are cozy nooks to enjoy with the onset of fall, and NewPages Guide to Independent Bookstores in the U.S. and Canada is a great resource for finding local independent bookstores both in your own area and as you travel. There is no better way to get to know a city than to check in with their local indie bookstore(s). For authors and publishers, our list is a great resource for finding sales outlets and reading venues to promote your books.

NewPages.com currently lists only brick-and-mortar stores (no online-only, pop-up, mobile, comics-only shops, or shops with books as a side business). We offer free enhanced listings in our Guide to Independent Bookstores to help booksellers connect with book lovers, so you can find a lot of info for many of the stores.

If we’re missing any stores you know about, drop us a quick note!

[Thanks to our friends at The Open Book in Warrenton, VA, for the lovely staff photo!]

We Love Indie Bookstores!

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NewPages Guide to Independent Bookstores in the U.S. and Canada is a great resource for finding local independent bookstores both in your own area and as you travel. There is no better way to get to know a city than to check in with their local indie bookstore(s). For authors and publishers, our list is a great resource for finding sales outlets and reading venues to promote your books.

NewPages.com currently lists only brick-and-mortar stores (no online-only, pop-up, mobile, comics-only shops, or shops with books as a side business). We offer free enhanced listings in our Guide to Independent Bookstores to help booksellers connect with book lovers, so you can find a lot of info for many of the stores.

If we’re missing any stores you know about, drop us a quick note!

[Thanks to our friends at Galaxy Bookshop for the lovely storefront photo!]

Shop Local – Indie Bookstores

Ballyhoo! Books & Brew storefront photo

NewPages Guide to Independent Bookstores in the U.S. and Canada is a great resource for finding local independent bookstores both in your own area and as you travel around. There is no better way to get to know a city than to check in with their local indie bookstore(s). For authors and publishers, our list is a great resource to find sales outlets and reading venues to promote your books.

NewPages.com currently lists only brick-and-mortar stores (no online-only, pop-up, mobile, comics-only shops, or shops with books as a side business). We offer free enhanced listings in our Guide to Independent Bookstores to help booksellers connect with book lovers, so you can find a lot of info for many of the stores.

If we’re missing any stores you know about, drop us a quick note!

[Thanks to our friends at Ballyhoo! Books & Brew for the lovely storefront photo!]

Traveling? Visit Indie Bookstores!

Midland Street Books, Bay City, Michigan, photo of storefront

NewPages Guide to Independent Bookstores in the U.S. and Canada is a great resource for summer travelers. There is no better way to get to know a city than to check in with their local indie bookstore(s).

NewPages.com currently lists only brick-and-mortar stores (no online-only, pop-up, mobile, comics-only shops, or shops with books as a side business). We offer free enhanced listings in our Guide to Independent Bookstores to help booksellers connect with book lovers, so you can find a lot of info for many of the stores.

If we’re missing your favorite stores, do let us know!

[Thanks to our friends at Midland Street Books for the lovely storefront photo!]

Is Your Favorite Bookstore Listed?

Midland Street Books in Bay City, Michigan store front image

Is Your Favorite Bookstore Listed? As you are hitting up your favorite local indie bookstores this summer or if you are traveling and looking to visit some new indie shops, check out the NewPages Guide to Bookstores in the U.S. and Canada. We list the best independent bookstores (selling both new and used books) by location with website, social media, contact information, and a brief description of each. If you know a bookstore or come across one in your travels that we don’t have listed on our site, please let us know! Bookstores can sign up here: Indie Bookstore Listing; or patrons can let us know about a shop here: Contact Us. These listings are FREE for bookstores because WE LOVE INDIE BOOKSTORES and want to help promote them to our readers. [Pictured: Midland Street Books in Bay City, Michigan.]

Reach Bookstores in the U.S. and Canada

At the end of last year, we introduced a Canadian independent bookstores mailing list to help writers reach our neighbors to the north. Right now, you can get the digital Canadian bookstore list for free when you buy the digital United States bookstore list. Reach nearly 1,800 bookstores with both lists.

More interested in reaching libraries? You can still buy our public library list and receive the academic library list for free.

Learn more about all our mailing lists at our website.

Indie Bookstore Check-In

Have you checked in on your local indie bookstore lately? Contribute to fundraisers, order books for delivery or curbside pick-up, or just send a supportive message to see how they’re doing while they’re closed to the public.

You can use the NewPages Guide to Literary Magazines to find stores in your area in the United States and Canada. The status of what services they’re providing is constantly changing, so it’s good to keep seeing what’s up if you’re able.

Support Indie Bookstores

Indie BookstoresIndie bookstores give back to their communities in numerous ways: hosting events, providing safe spaces, offering places to gather with like-minded people, introducing readers to writers. With pandemic-caused closures and lock-downs across the country, bookstores and the authors they support could currently use some help from the community in return.

Visit our Guide to Independent Bookstores to see the stores in your area and check in on how they’re doing. Some have shortened hours or have limited the amount of people allowed in the store at one time, some have completely transitioned to online sales, some will package up a book and run it out to you at the curb.

If you’re able, pick up or order a book to keep you company while you’re holed up at home. And don’t forget to keep washing your hands!

Smorgasbords Don’t Have Bottoms

nplus1-article.jpgSmorgasbords Don’t Have Bottoms. N+1 magazine. A long read touching on Borders, Amazon, the Kindle, indie bookstores, ebooks, audiobooks, Barnes & Noble, conglomerate publishing, Trump books, the end of fact-checking and editing, Goodreads, indie publishers, and more.

“… there is a giant constellation of books being produced by America’s independent publishers, carefully edited and intelligently marketed, that are worth reading. Though they face long odds and ghastly profit margins (n+1 barely breaks even on books we sell through Amazon), in a destabilized media environment, books published by independents often get the same degree of press as those with six-figure marketing budgets, their impact on the culture wildly disproportionate to their authors’ and publishers’ limited means.”