Happy Independents Day

I may have gotten the spelling of that wrong but it's with great appreciation to the following for their independent spirit, which is what I think of when July 4 and Independence Day arrives each year (with apologies to the dozens I know in advance I'm going to miss out on):

Dzanc Books, McNally Jackson Bookstore, Featherproof Books, Nicola's Books, Chiasmus Press, The Book Cellar, Coffee House Press, Ada Books, Milkweed Editions, Malaprop's Bookstore, Sator Press, Burke's Books, Starcherone, Octavia Books, Publishing Genius, Turnrow Book Company, Mudluscious Press, Lemuria Books, Greying Ghost Press, Square Books, Tyrant Books, The Regulator Bookshop, Keyhole Press, Micawbers, OV Books, Longfellow Books, Black Lawrence Press, Powell's Bookstore, Unbridled Books, Skylight Books, FlatmanCrooked, St. Marks Bookshop, Graywolf Books, Harvard Bookstore, MacAdam/Cage, Changing Hands Bookstore, Caketrain, Leopold's Books, Calamari Press, Vroman's Bookstore, JR Vansant, Booksmith, Brown Paper Publishing, City Lights Books, Press 53, Chaucer's Books, Other Press, Book Soup, FC2, Tattered Cover Bookstore, Livingston Press, Busboys and Poets, Les Figues, Prairie Lights Bookstore, Akashic Books, Quimby's Bookstore, Algonquin, Women and Children First, Ellipsis Press, Rainy  Day Books, Ugly Duckling Presse, Watermark Books, Magic Helicopter Press, Carmichael's Books, Willows Wept Press, Brookline Booksmith, Word Riot, Porter Square Books, Ampersand Books, Blue Hill Books, Small Beer Press, Book Beat, Soft Skull Press, Literary Life Bookstore, Two Dollar Radio, Birchbark Books, Ravenna Press, Schuler Books, Rose Metal Press, Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Sarabande Books, Common Good Books, Tin House, Left Bank Books, Barnacle Books, Fact & Fiction Books, Autumn House, Park Road Books, Future Tense Press, Island Bookstore, Bellevue Literary Press, Quail Ridge Bookshop, Gival Press, Bookworm, Godine Books, Gibson's Bookstore, Melville House Press, Labyrinth Books, Narrow Books, Moby Dickens, Orange Alert Press, Sundance Books, Short Flight/Long Drive Books, Book Court, Dalkey Archive, WORD, BOA Editions, Talking Leaves, Marick Press, 192 Books, McSweeney's, Bluestockings Bookstore, Ig Publishing, Book Culture, Open City, Shakespeare & Co, New Directions, Three Lives & Co., Grove Press, Full Circle Bookstore, Casperian Books, Grass Roots Bookstore, Red Hen Press, Broadway Books, Overlook Press, Doylestown Bookshop, Year of the Liquidator, Book People, Iris Books, King's English, Brave Men Press, Northshire Bookstore, New Michigan Press, Elliott Bay Book Company, Hotel St. George Press, Woodland Pattern Bookstore, Open Letter Press, Boswell Book Company

Comments

[John Domini]

Great job, Dan -- but I must set off a few July 4th fireworks for Beaverdale Books of Des Moines, IA:
www.beaverdlaebooks.com

[John Domini]

Let's get it straight: www.beaverdalebooks.com!

[Dan Wickett]

Thanks, John. I hope others follow your lead on those that I missed. I'm sure there are dozens and dozens of both publishers and booksellers that I missed out on.

Underland Press and SunnyOutside for instance.

[MoGa]

linkage props, dan!

[Alice Meyer]

From Beaverdale Books: Thanks to both of you, John and Dan! I'm just glad that there are enough independents that you have to be concerned about missing some. It's an honor to be included in such a fine list. And let's not forget that it's the writers that keep us going!

[Scott C. Rogers]

Where's the Michigan love? Maybe next year we'll make the list. www.blackcoffeepress.net