A customer browses titles at JF Books on September 17, 2024. Maansi Srivastava for NPR hide caption
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Leonard Riggio, then chairman of Barnes & Noble, arrives at a bookstore in New York on Sept. 12, 2017. Riggio died on Tuesday. Seth Wenig/AP hide caption
Yu & Me Books was a fairly new business when a fire — which broke out above the store on July 4 — caused substantial damage to the shop. Now, owner Lucy Yu is working to rebuild not just the physical bookstore, but the community around it as well. Caroline Xia/Yu & Me Books hide caption
Fire devastated this NYC Chinatown bookshop — community has rushed to its aid
Barnes & Noble opened this new store in Pikesville, Md., as it began its biggest expansion in years. Alina Selyukh/NPR hide caption
Jan Bolgla and Bob Roarty have owned and operated Atlanta Vintage Books for more than 16 years. Fernando Alfonso III/NPR hide caption
The first Gibert bookstore in 1908. Family Archives hide caption
Paris Bookstores Are Designated Essential — But These Landmarks Struggle To Survive
Katie Mitchell, co-owner of Good Books in Atlanta, runs an online and pop-up bookshop with her mom, Katherine. "Things are trendy for a while ... and then they're not," she says. Lynsey Weatherspoon for NPR hide caption
The sign for a Barnes & Noble bookstore hangs above the entrance to one of its locations in Brooklyn earlier this year. The book retailer and Elliott Management Corp. announced Friday that they have agreed to a sale price of about $683 million. Drew Angerer/Getty Images hide caption
People pass books down a chain to help the bookstore October Books move to a new location on Sunday in Southampton, England. October Books hide caption
Peter Reynolds, owner of Blue Bunny Books in Dedham, Mass., says he hopes the unique atmosphere will keep customers coming to independent bookstores like his. Robin Lubbock/WBUR hide caption
A customer looks at a book at Amazon Books, the first brick-and-mortar retail store for the online retail giant, on Nov. 3 in Seattle. Elaine Thompson/AP hide caption
Is Amazon Planning Hundreds Of Bookstores? Analysts Doubt It
A clerk works the counter at Amazon Books, the retailer's first brick-and-mortar store that opened in Seattle Tuesday. Kate O'Connell Walters/KUOW hide caption
Pages bookstore partner and manager Samer al-Kadri (center) talks with customers. The Syrian founded a publishing company in Damascus, but fled when the war made it impossible to run. He wound up in Istanbul, where he noticed a lack of books in Arabic, and took it upon himself to serve the community. Peter Kenyon/NPR hide caption
Istanbul Bookstore Caters To Syrian Refugees In Need Of A Good Read
Capitol Hill Books owner Jim Toole runs the front register of his used bookstore several days a week. He has banned several words from his store, including "awesome," "perfect" and "Amazon." Ariel Zambelich/NPR hide caption