Guides to Indipendent Bookstores

Independent bookstores are often fragile and isolated realities. That is why there are many projects aiming to create directories or guides.

Some guides are on paper, like those edited by  NdA -Nuova Distribuzione Associati-, part of the project Interno4.

Some other projects are on line, like Indi per Cui part of Finzioni Magazine, an interesting and successful project where readers are invited to edit maps and to narrate descriptions on the best independent bookstores of their city.

Bookstoreguide is an on-line "amateur guide to book shopping throughout Europe."

Sonja and Ivan, students living in two different countries, opened the website 5 years ago, they did not expect that the website would grow to the point "to include 243 bookstores in 103 European cities. Attracting almost half a million visitors, who logged in from almost all the countries in the world."