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Berlin indie booksellers make a successful splash (via DW)
It’s a holiday showdown between brick and mortar and bytes (via The Republic)
What’s selling like hot cakes in SoCal? (via LA Observed)
Another small Massachusetts bookseller shutters (via Daily Hampshire Gazette)
A UK recommendation for a winter read comes from a very American favorite (via Guardian)
If you’re looking for a comic book boom town, it is Sacramento (via Sacramento Press)
Opening up the Filipino e-book market (via CNET)
Gardening books to inspire (via Cleveland.com)
Book critics favs from 2011 (via NPR)
New books for crafters (via Calgary Herald)
How a bookcover states its intent, like a good pick-up artist (via Independent)
Books snatched from Canadian family center (via CBC)

A very interesting peek at the opening of a city library, circa early 20th century (via Democrat and Chronicle)
Ongoing series featuring UK indie booksellers continues (via Guardian)
It’s holiday shopping season, so go out there and support your indie bookseller (via Salon)
Marketing cues borrowed from bookstores applied to libraries (via Columbus Dispatch)
ALA denounces destruction of Occupy Wall Street library (via Washington Post)
Are bookstores in China on the verge of collapse (via Channel News Asia)
Continuing boom of India’s publishing industry (via Spectator)
Why libraries are important to a healthy publishing industry (via News Miner)
The hottest books flying off the shelves in Seattle (via Seattle Times)
Comparing My Week with Marilyn print to screen (via EW)
How the bookstore, The Book Tavern, came to be because 9/11 (via Augusta Chronicle)

Strapped communities cut library services (via Minnesota NPR)
Canada Reads list narrows to 10 (via Canada.com)
Rep wants Obama to return royalties from books bought by DoS (via The Hill)
Where do Las Vegas residents go for their lit fix (via Las Vegas Review Journal)
New book chronicles St. Louis Cardinals World Series journey (via GalleyCat)
Memoir about a boy who loved Batman (via Seattle PI)
New ‘awkward’ book features photos of owners and pets (via SFGate)
Students could save boat loads of cash thanks to open source (via Seattle Times)
Fargoites got some books for those cold nights (via Inforum)
Review of book about 1960s Formula One racing life (via Telegraph)
Sure to stir up conversation, are women comicbook fans rare? What? (via CNN)
A list of the top wilderness books (via Guardian)
Google bookstore makes it to Canada (via Montreal Gazette)
Tulsa may get new used-bookstore and coffee shop (via Tulsa World)
Kids exchange Halloween candy for books for good cause (via Poughkeepsie Journal)

For a round-up of general books, check out this regular installment of BIR.

How struggling libraries in the UK are inspiring survival methods and catching notice of the wider community (via Spectator)
When it comes to books on Nazi Germany it seems there is a never ending interest (via BBC)
One publisher examines the viability of by-passing sales through Amazon (via Nieman Lab)
The magic, literal magic, of occult bookstore Treadwell’s in London (via Guardian)
It’s a literary library rumble for some kids in West Virginia (via Herald Mail)
Last week it was what the Germans were reading. This week, the French (via Guardian)

Break out the pom-pons for your local indie bookseller (via Guardian)
10 most pirated books (via Journal Star)
Another book pulled from the shelves of a school district (via WMBF)
And in Tunisia as well as Egypt, once banned books return to the shelves (via Moby Lives)
In PA. a librarian finds a stash of cash in a book (via WGAL)
College student develops cross platform e-book self publishing method (via INC)
Self-published author hits nearly one million books sold (via Hexus)
London Book Fair to feature Russia works this fest (via Telegraph)
Kickstarter saving indie comic books. What could it do for publishing? (via Wired)
In Rochester, NY a local writer’s org has created a scavenger hunt to promote a ‘one book’ program for the city- The Good Thief (via Democrat and Chronicle)
Ban on holy books handed out at Aussie immigration ceremonies draws flak (via The Age)