If you want to support a Black-owned bookstore or bookish business long-term, one great way to do so is to subscribe to a service that delivers books and related products to your door every month or every quarter.
We believe that Black Lives Matter, that Black books matter, and that Black-owned bookstores are integral to the indie bookstore landscape. After the outpouring of support and engagement with this list of Black-owned bookstores, we wanted to recommend some actionable ways (beyond buying books, of course) to support local, independent, Black-owned bookstores across the country […]
Being an anti-racist reader means not only educating ourselves, but also paying attention to the institutions we support financially. We put together this list of Black-owned independent bookstores.
Saturday was supposed to be Independent Bookstore Day, and for obvious reasons it had to be postponed. But that didn’t stop YOU from showing up for your bookstores in a big way yesterday!
How can you support your independent bookstore and booksellers? Here’s what you can do today to help make an impact.
Congratulations to the authors, narrators, and publishers of 2020’s Audie Awards-winners!
How are independent bookstores not just surviving, but thriving, in the age of Amazon? It’s a question that Ryan Raffaelli, assistant professor at Harvard Business School, first asked in 2015, compelling him to study independent bookstores ever since.
On Wednesday, January 8th, Libro.fm launched Bookstore Link, and bookstores, influencers, and authors showed their support by helping us spread the word. Read on for some of the highlights!
Is “read more” one of your resolutions for 2020? We asked booksellers, bookstagrammers, and bloggers for their best tips to hit that TBR goal. Read on for advice from our favorite power readers…
Not only do Libro.fm audiobooks support your independent bookstore and make your community stronger, they also create zero waste.
Thanks to YOU, Libro.fm’s Real People Monday was a huge success! We saw so many people showing love for their local booksellers on social media. Plenty of people who’d never even heard of Libro.fm are now members. (We had a record number of new memberships AND referrals.) Most importantly, got to celebrate the amazing booksellers that make your communities so unique and wonderful. Thank you for being a part of the movement to support independent bookstores through Libro.fm!
On December 2nd, a day known as “Cyber Monday” for online shopping largely benefitting big companies, Libro.fm and 6,000+ bookselling partners are sharing a message: Today, choose to celebrate Real People Monday by shopping at your local bookstore with Libro.fm.