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Keeping Independent Booksellers in Business

• Northern California Independent Booksellers Association
  See its Declaration of Independents and page on the American Booksellers Association lawsuit against Borders, Barnes & Noble.
• Owners' Statement on the Closing of Printers Inc. Bookstore/Palo Alto
• "Books on the Brink: Latest Mergers Imperil Diversity in Books" - Bertelsmann, Barnes & Noble, and Ingram by William Petrocelli, Book Passage News and Reviews, January – February 1999
• "The Year in (Book) Review" - 1998 events in the publishing and bookselling industry by Dave Kipen, San Francisco Chronicle, December 27, 1998
• "Internet Smashing Small Bookstores: Printers Inc. in Palo Alto to Close" - by Carolyne Zinko, San Francisco Chronicle, December 26, 1998
• "Independent Bookstores Face Chain-Store Threat" - Barnes & Noble purchase of the Ingram Book Group, San Francisco Chronicle, November 29, 1998
• "Borders Inc. Loses Fight In Marina: Planning Board Rejects Union Street Bookstore" - by Dan Levy, San Francisco Chronicle, November 6, 1998

Bay Area Independent Booksellers

• Northern California Independent Booksellers Association
  Land addresses, phone numbers, a "create your own map to the bookstore" feature, web addresses, bookstore profiles.
• Alexander Book Company - San Francisco
• Book Passage - Corte Madera
• Books Inc. - various locations
• Booksmith - San Francisco
• City Lights Booksellers and Publishers - San Francisco
• A Clean Well-Lighted Place for Books - San Francisco
• Cody's Books - Berkeley
• Cover to Cover Booksellers - San Francisco
• Kepler's Books and Magazines - Menlo Park
• Stacey's Bookstores - San Francisco

Independent Booksellers Outside the Bay Area

• Vancouver Island Booksellers Association - British Columbia, Canada