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Half Price Books, Records, Magazines, Incorporated is a chain of new and used bookstores in the United States. The company's original motto is "We buy and sell anything printed or recorded except yesterday's newspaper", and many of the used books, music, and movies for sale in each location are purchased from local residents.
BookPeople is an independent bookstore in Austin, Texas, and the largest bookstore in the state of Texas. [1] It was founded in 1970 and has been voted the best bookstore by the Austin Chronicle every year since 1995 as of 2010. [2] BookPeople was voted Publishers Weekly's "Best Bookstore in the US 2005". [3]
In 1988, Bookland acquired the Gateway Books retail chain based in Knoxville, Tennessee. The same year, the company opened its first superstore format store. [5] In 1992, the company changed its name to Books-A-Million, Inc. and became a public company via an initial public offering of 2.6 million shares at a price of $13 per share. [5] [6]
Bucholz, Barbara B. and Margaret Cran. "Bookstop, Austin, TX." In: Bucholz, Barbara B. Corporate Bloodlines: The Future of the Family Firm (A Lyle Stuart book). Carol Publishing Group, 1989. ISBN 0818405074, 9780818405075. p. 145-159 - This book has a chapter on Bookstop
The Firm is a 1991 legal thriller by American writer John Grisham.It was his second book and the first that gained wide popularity. In 1993, after selling 1.5 million copies, it was adapted into a film of the same name starring Tom Cruise, Gene Hackman and Jeanne Tripplehorn.
ThriftBooks was founded in the summer of 2003 by Daryl Butcher and Jason Meyer. The two created software that organizes and lists thousands of book titles per day. [6] Since 2004, it has partnered with libraries, which provide unsorted books and get a share of the profits.
Oak Knoll in New Castle, DE. Oak Knoll Books was founded in 1976 in Newark, Delaware by Robert D. (Bob) Fleck Jr. (1947–2016). [3] He founded Oak Knoll Press in 1978. [4] [5] Both parts of Oak Knoll specialize in books "about book collecting, book selling, bibliography, libraries, publishing, private press printing, fine printing, bookbinding, book design, book illustration, calligraphy ...
This is a list of English-language book publishers.It includes imprints of larger publishing groups, which may have resulted from business mergers. Included are academic publishers, technical manual publishers, publishers for the traditional book trade (both for adults and children), religious publishers, and small press publishers, among other types.