Bookstore facts for kids

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El Ateneo Bookstore
A book store in Buenos Aires

A bookstore is a store that sells books, and where people can buy them. A used bookstore or second-hand bookshop sells and often buys used books.

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  • Księgarnia Szarlotty Seipeltówny przy ul. Piotrkowskiej 47 fot Włodzimierz Pfeiffer MZW

    A bookshop in Łódź, Poland, 1935

  • Japanese bookseller from Jinrin kinmo zui

    Japanese bookseller from the Jinrin kinmo zui (An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Humanity) from 1690

  • 13th century Dominican church converted into a bookstore in Maastricht, the Netherlands

    13th century Dominican church converted into a bookstore in Maastricht, the Netherlands

  • Gare Metz décor 20

    In many parts of the world, bookstores—like this one in the train station in Metz, France—are often found in transport facilities.

  • Tattered-cover-16th-st

    The Tattered Cover is a bookstore in Denver, Colorado, and one of the largest independent bookstores in the United States.

  • Shakespeare and Company store in Paris

    Shakespeare and Company, an English-language bookshop in Paris

  • Bookshop in Much Wenlock

    Bookshop in Much Wenlock, UK.

  • Libreria San Gines

    Librería San Ginés in Madrid (Spain)

  • Borders bookshelf

    Books on a table in a Borders store in Georgia, USA. Borders stores started closing in 2010.

  • Bookshop, Tokyo

    Books in a Tokyo bookstore


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