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15 Books Like The Kissing Booth That Are Sure to Make You Swoon

Love The Kissing Booth movies on Netflix? Add these books to your reading list.

How A Teenage Girl Became the Mother of Horror

Mary Shelley combined science and the supernatural to write Frankenstein, the world’s first science-fiction novel.

Arts Alliance of Southern Indiana kicks off SoIN Big Read event

More than 1,000 copies of “Ella Enchanted” will be distributed throughout southern Indiana for free.

What Libraries Can (Still) Do

Librarians will need to cherish their special talent as “stewards” while letting go of the instinct to be “collectors.” Knowledge in physical form needs to be preserved and curated. But with digital information pouring into iPhones and Kindles in petabytes, libraries need to rethink old habits. They cannot collect everything, or even a small fraction of everything.

How Do You Move A Bookstore? With A Human Chain, Book By Book

Shoulder to shoulder, they formed a line 500 feet long: from the stockroom of the old shop, down the sidewalk, and onto the shop floor of the new store.

15 Things That Happen When You Walk into a Bookstore with a Book Nerd

Book stores are to book lovers what Disneyland is to a five-year-old.

How to Get Your Self-Published Books Into Bookstores and Libraries

Book buyer and distribution expert Amy Collins shares a free step-by-step guide to getting self published books to sell in bookstores and libraries.

Open Your Dream Bookstore And We'll Tell You Which Book To Read Next

What Not to Say to Bookstore Employees

Avoid bookstore faux pas like the following while speaking to the overworked bookstore employees with their smocks and helpful head nods:1. How much does this cost on Amazon?2. How can you wor

What is a ‘good bookstore’?

4 Reasons Why Bookstores Are Thriving

Independent bookstores offer four essential things that people have a nostalgic craving for, things a chain retailer is just not able to offer.

Why Do Cats Love Bookstores?

When I walk into Community Bookstore in Brooklyn, my local, the first thing I do (after saying hi to the owners) is look for the store cat, Tiny the Usurper. Tiny is the photogenic spirit of the pl…

How To Redesign Bookstores For The Amazon Era

A bookstore that dwells in darkness, literally.

How does one browse in a dark bookstore? Picture row upon row of faced-out books lit like tiny billboards floating in an inky black room, small candle lit café tables as little islands of light bet…

What’s in a Bookstore?

For more than five centuries, equilibrium between profit and passion has remained elusive to book buyers and sellers.

Which Bookstores Will Survive This?

Some have laid off staff. Others have transformed into online shops. They're all running out of time.

Should We Pay to Enter Bookstores?

There must be a way to level the playing field a bit between brick-and-mortar shops and cheaper, more convenient online retailers, ideally sooner than later.

What Kind of Bookstore Browser Are You?

When a Bookstore Is Also a Safe Haven

In troubling times, bookstores play an important role as a place to gather, reflect, talk, and heal.