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Celebrating Independent Bookstore Day 2025 with an Origin Story

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Angie Gascho
Apr 25, 2025
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One of the many wonderful nooks in Green Apple Books. Photo ⓒ Angie Gascho 2024.

Last year, I wrote a post titled “5 Things Independent Bookstores Can Give You That Amazon Can’t” in honor of Independent Bookstore Day. The battle between the “big bad chain store” and the “small independent local business” is not a new one. The 1998 Nora Ephron film You’ve…

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