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Independent booksellers offer personalized recommendations, promoting a diversity of voices and perspectives often overlooked by larger chains.—American Booksellers Association, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2025 That expansion comes despite trends favoring online book merchants like Amazon, e-book streaming sites like Audible or independent booksellers like Miami’s Books & Books that serve locals with events catering to the community like the annual Miami Book Fair.—Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 20 Mar. 2025 The bookseller brought up a high-profile example: Boris Akunin, a best-selling author of historical detective fiction, who has faced nearly every type of opprobrium for his criticism of Putin and the war.—Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2025 Related Articles Chris Bohjalian drew the Starship Enterprise on his mom’s Hemingway first edition
Where do local booksellers get help when things get tough?—Erik Pedersen, Orange County Register, 7 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for bookseller
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