The Bookshop: A History of Bookselling from the Dawn of Print to the Twenty-First Century

The global history of the rise and transformation of bookstores, from medieval book merchants to today’s neighborhood indies

Whether it’s a local indie bookshop, an online megaretailer, or a chain bookstore, the place we buy books is an essential part of our reading lives. Bookstores connect books to potential buyers and convert idle browsers into committed readers. Yet, as historian Andrew Pettegree reveals, it took more than five centuries after Gutenberg for bookstores as we know them to...