Home > The M.O. > Archives > 2007 > November > 21 > Entry
Your A-List: Best Bookstore
Consistently ranked as the most literate city in Texas, and one of the most literate in the country, Austin is a haven for book lovers. And leading the pack of those feeding Austinites’ book jones is BookPeople, with 44 percent of the vote, winner of the Your A-List poll for Best Bookstore.
While other cities may rely on big-box stores to satisfy their literary needs, Austin likes to Keep it Weird, as well all know, and BookPeople has been at the forefront of the local, independent business scene. The downtown location offers over 200,000 titles, in addition to one of the best magazine selections in town, locally-produced gifts, and much more. Beyond just being an excellent purveyor of goods, BookPeople also works to maintain its reputation as a good neighbor, by offering programs for children and families, as well as a packed calendar of book readings from an array of writers. It is this spirit of community and a love of books that helped BookPeople earn Publisher’s Weekly nod as Bookstore of the Year in 2005 and its place atop the Your A-List poll in 2007.
BookPeople [site]
603 N. Lamar [map]
472.5050
Others receiving votes
- Half-Price Books, 29 percent
- Barnes & Noble, 14 percent
- Borders, 5 percent
- BookWoman, 3 percent
- Intellectual Property, 2 percent
- Monkeywrench, 1 percent
- Austin Books and Comics, 1 percent
- 12th Street Books, < 1 percent
- Resistencia, 1 percent
Write-in: Bookstop
Permalink | | Categories: Your A-List
