Thursday evening we changed the headline and opening sentence in our story about the American Booksellers Association’s for-profit IndieCommerce subsidiary delisting Amazon titles. We made the changes at the request of IndieCommerce director Matt Supko, who said that the policy change was made by IndieCommerce personnel. Because the ABA is a nonprofit, it can’t tell its members to carry or not carry a book or books.

Indigo, Canada's largest book retailer, reported Q3 revenues that were up slightly, but profits were down from the previous year.

The Booksmith, a literary fixture of Seneca, S.C., has just been put up for sale by co-owners Alan and Patricia Lightweis, who plan to retire after more than two decades behind the counter.

On Wednesday the American Booksellers Association's for-profit subsidiary, IndieCommerce, began removing all Amazon titles from its database.

Algonquin Books in Chapel Hill is looking to spread the e-book love to indies with a marketing promotion that kicks off just in time for Valentine's Day, 7 e-books for 7 days at $1.99.

Following the example of iconic bookstores like New England Mobile Book Fair and Politics & Prose, 22-year-old R.J. Julia is putting itself on the selling block.

Bookseller Una Mulzac (1923-2012), founder of the Harlem’s Liberation Bookstore on West 131st Street in New York City, died late last month at the age of 88.

The Curious George store in Harvard Square Cambridge, Mass., will reopen on April 28, with a new name, new owners, and a different product mix, all dedicated to the mischievous monkey.

The man who grew the Hudson News chain from a single store in LaGuardia Airport in 1987 to roughly 600 stores in the U.S. and Canada, Robert B. Cohen, died; he was 86.

With the closing of Outwrite Books in Atlanta late last month and the impending closing of True Colors (formerly Amazon Bookstore Cooperative) in Minneapolis, some in bookselling circles have begun to question whether niche bookstores can survive. Twenty years ago, specialty stores were seen as a strategy to face the onslaught of the chains. “The niche has been completely our salvation,” says Richard Goldman, co-owner of 21-year-old Mystery Lovers Bookshop in Oakmont, Pa. “While it’s not a universal cure-all, it was key to our strategy.” Although many specialty bookstores have closed, others are finding success by shifting their focus, broadening their inventory, and adding more events. And some are growing. Mysterious Galaxy in San Diego, Calif., opened a second location in Redondo Beach last fall; Idlewild Books in New York City added an outpost in Brooklyn last month; and A Room of One’s Own in Madison, Wis., is moving to a new space in July, doubling in size.