New bookstores for Texas and Missouri; Amazon's bricks-and-mortar bookselling lessons; Hawaii's booming book business; and more.
Rural Texas Gets a New Bookstore: Argos Brewhouse & Bookseller in Sweetwater will have its second preview opening this weekend and will host a grand opening on September 5.
New Bookstore to Open in Missouri: Uriel's Unusual Bookstore, a bookstore and coffee shop, will open in Springfield sometime this November or December.
Lessons Learned by Amazon Books: The company, which opens its ninth and tenth bookstore this week, offers insight into what it has learned in two years of running bricks-and-mortar stores.
Hawaii Bookstore Touts Strong Sales: Talk Story Bookstore in Hanapepe on the island of Kauai says business is booming and attributes its success to locally sourced products.
New Montreal Bookstore with Focus on Diversity Opens: Librairie Racines, in the city's Montréal-Nord neighborhood, opened August 5.
The Persistence of a Favorite Irish Bookstore: Kenny's Bookstrore in Galway, opened since 1940 and with a stock of over a million titles, still survives in the age of Amazon.
