Just as an FYI – the ABA’s numbers on indie bookstores are stratospherically off. And here’s how you prove it:
Go to SuperPages. Type in “bookstores.” Click search. Almost 20,000 entries come up. Even if we assume half of those entries are wrong or are for big box stores, that would still leave a lot more indie bookstores than they’re counting. And that assumes the indie bookstores are buying yellow pages ads.
Doing the same search via various sources and cross-referencing the results suggests that there are about 30,000 bookstores in the U.S. Most of them don’t bother joining the ABA.
