But an independent bookstore may not be such a prize.

Anyway, no matter how much I love independent bookstores, they just weren't getting the books to the people.

How amazing it is that an independent bookstore should open, just as so many others have been forced to close.

For five of these years, she also worked part-time at an independent bookstore.

More than half of the nation's independent bookstores have closed in the last decade.

"There's a particular type of person that goes to the independent bookstore," she said.

Having lots of books, though, is no longer enough to keep an independent bookstore alive.

We need in this life both a good library and an independent bookstore.

That could never happen in an independent bookstore of course.

"But now they are paying much more attention to independent bookstores."