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As Amazon shuts its physical stores, woman opens new bookstore in Chestnut Hill
By adamg on Fri, 03/25/2022 - 9:18am
![Hummingbird Books storefront](https://www.universalhub.com/files/styles/main_image/public/images/2022/hmmmm.jpg?itok=sXOaAT12)
The still covered storefront, by Sean the roving UHub photographer
The Boston Real Estate Times reports the imminent opening of Hummingbird Books at the Street mall on Rte. 9.
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Where people buy books to
Where people buy books to read on their Pelotons
Bookstore
Good to see, hope it’s a success. We had a longtime independent bookstore in my town, then a Borders opened nearby. The small bookstore then closed and Borders went out of business thereafter, so no bookstore in my town now.
Wishing her much success
It will still be tough for an independent vendor. Amazon may have closed its brink n mortar - but they are still the first place folks go to get books. And with Prime; delivery can sometimes be within 24 hours...
Amazon alternatives
I’ve been working to eliminate all Amazon from my life (including no Whole Foods).
Buying hard copy books online with 30% of the cover price going to your local bookstore:
https://bookshop.org/pages/store_locator
Audiobooks:
https://libro.fm/
Good Luck
Here's a plug for both Papercuts in JP and Brookline Booksmith.
Will have to check out Hummingbird when they open.
Also
Frugal Bookstore in Nubian Square and Susie’s Stories in Rockport, plus another in Northampton that I can’t think of the name of. The only three Black-owned brick-and-mortar bookstores in Massachusetts as far as I know.
Oh
And More Than Words as well.