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Young’s Book Exchange is known as the first African-American bookstore. It was located at 135 West 135th Street in New York City . [ 1 ] It was founded in 1915 by George Young, [ 1 ] who was a Pullman porter during the 1900s, and became a bibliophile of African-American literature .
Black Garnet Books Minnesota: Saint Paul: African-American: SubText: a Bookstore Minnesota: Saint Paul: Square Books Mississippi: Oxford: Left Bank Books Missouri: St. Louis: Montana Valley Book Store Montana: Alberton: Gambler's Book Shop Nevada: Las Vegas: The Writer's Block Nevada: Las Vegas: The Lit. Bar New York: The Bronx: Book Thug ...
A store of used books in Madrid. Used bookstores (usually called "second-hand bookshops" in Great Britain [1]) buy and sell used books and out-of-print books. A range of titles is available in used bookstores, including in print and out-of-print books. Book collectors tend to frequent used book stores.
AbeBooks (/ ˈ eɪ b. b ʊ k s / AYB-buuks [1]) is an e-commerce global online marketplace with seven websites that offer books, fine art, and collectables from sellers in over 50 countries. Launched in 1996, it specialises in used, rare and out-of-print books. AbeBooks has been a subsidiary of Amazon since 2008. [2]
A "street book exchange" in Washington Heights, Manhattan. Book swapping or book exchange is the practice of a swap of books between one person and another. Practiced among book groups, friends and colleagues at work, it provides an inexpensive way for people to exchange books, find out about new books and obtain a new book to read without ...
Little Free Library in a Tokyo Metro station. The first Little Free Library was built in 2009 by the late Todd Bol in Hudson, Wisconsin. [9] Bol mounted a wooden container, designed to look like a one-room schoolhouse, on a post on his lawn and filled it with books as a tribute to his late mother, a book lover and school teacher who had recently died. [10]
The Rare Book Hub (formerly known as the Americana Exchange) is a website for the buying, selling and collecting of rare and antiquarian books. It was founded in 2002 in San Francisco by rare book collector Bruce McKinney with the aim of offering hard to find information about book collecting to the public.
In the 2000s, e-books started to take market share away from printed books, either published directly via the World Wide Web, or read on e-ink devices such as the Amazon Kindle, introduced in 2007. Amazon continued to gain significant market share, and these competitive pressures resulted in a collapse of the chain stores in the 2010s. [ 15 ]