Independent bookstores are small bookselling businesses, usually with one or a small number of locations in a limited geographic area. They contrast with corporate or chain bookstores, operated by a larger company, often with many stores across a large area.
Outside the United States
Name Country Location(s) NotesForeign Language Bookshop Melbourne Aqua Books Winnipeg, Manitoba (defunct)Attic Books London, OntarioBakka-Phoenix Toronto, OntarioBison Books Winnipeg, ManitobaBook City Toronto, OntarioThe Book Room Halifax, Nova Scotia was, at the time of its 2008 closing, the oldest bookstore in Canada (defunct)Camas Bookstore and Infoshop Victoria, British ColumbiaCommon Woman Books (feminist, defunct)Glad Day Bookshop Toronto, OntarioHighway Book Shop Cobalt, Ontario (defunct)Hyman's Book and Art Shoppe independent Jewish bookstore in Toronto, Ontario (defunct)John W. Doull, Bookseller Dartmouth, Nova ScotiaLittle Sister's Book and Art Emporium Vancouver, British ColumbiaMcNally Robinson small independently run chain of stores across CanadaMondragon Bookstore & Coffeehouse Winnipeg, Manitoba (defunct)The Monkey's Paw Toronto, Ontario Munro's Books Victoria, British Columbia Spartacus Books Vancouver, British Columbia This Ain't the Rosedale Library Toronto, Ontario (defunct)Toronto Women's Bookstore Toronto, Ontario (defunct)The Word Bookstore Montreal José Corti Paris Shakespeare and Company Paris BuchGourmet Cologne Atuagkat Bookstore Nuuk An Ceathrú Póilí Belfast Sefer ve Sefel Jerusalem Al-Jahith's Treasury Scorpio Books Christchurch Solidaridad book shop Ermita district of Manila BooksActually Tiong Bahru Clarke's BookshopCape TownFascination Books (defunct)An Ceathrú Póilí Belfast Arthur Probsthain London Barter Books Alnwick Station, Northumberland Compendium Books London Daunt Books London Grass Roots Books Housmans London Silver Moon Bookshop (defunct)The Second Shelf London Stanfords London
United States
See also
Independent bookstore List of bookstore chains
References