Bookstores are making a comeback. Here’s one with 50,000 titles by Dan Rodricks in The Baltimore Sun
In Baltimore, the Ivy Bookshop and Greedy Reads are among independent stores that continue to buck the online trend and serve readers. Membership in the American Booksellers Association has just about doubled (to more than 2,400) since 2016, and the association says nearly 200 stores are opening over the next two years. A booksellers group in Colorado reports that, since 2020, at least 100 new stores have opened in 14 Western states, many of them in small towns.
I was starting to get into book reading more, but got waylaid by a couple life events (good ones). I’ve got some titles I need to finish up, and still torn some on the space requirement of books (need some dimensional folding solution), but the one I’m tempted to buy now is Andrew Steeves’ final letterpress book under the Gaspereau Press imprint, “Type Bountiful”.