Bookstores on the rise at local libraries

- Town libraries are finding that adding a bookstore is a way to increase revenue, and readers are happy to have a new source for low-priced books.

Boston Book Festival marks rising trend in bookselling

A typical bookstore reading is a quiet affair. One writer, maybe two, reading passages while standing at a lectern in front of a few dozen people .

Commission may declare former Transcendentalist bookstore a landmark

- The bookstore and library helped introduce Bostonians to the European literature that inspired the Transcendentalist movement. The parlor was a gathering place for its leaders, including her friend Ralph Waldo Emerson.