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Bookstores, even: Where do you take visitors and newcomers?

From Seattle Times • Jul. 28, 2023

Bookstores in Tennessee and other parts of the U.S. have made similar overtures, offering to put copies of the novel in readers’ hands.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2022

Bookstores were typically owned either by publishing houses or the government, Diwan co-founder Nadia Wassef recounts in her new memoir, “Shelf Life: Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller,” released last month.

From Washington Post • Nov. 12, 2021

Virginia Geist, who owns Cedar Springs Christian Bookstores in Knoxville, Tennessee, said her firm’s stores sell “four times as many Bibles” in the Advent season than at other time of the year.

From Washington Times • Oct. 18, 2021

Bookstores, where books were sold, bought, edited, and published, were now to be found in Kyoto and Yedo, and their business became lucrative enough to be continued as an independent calling.

From An Introduction to the History of Japan by Hara, Katsuro