We Heart Powell’s Books (& Think You Should Too!)

If you’ve checked out our book reviews recently, you may have noticed that our reviews look a little different. Since this site started (over a year ago!) our book reviews have always contained the Amazon.com widget, making buying the book we’re reviewing easy to do with just one click. While the widget was beneficial for our readers to make purchases, compare book prices, and buy used books from other Amazon members, I found another online book retailer that I fell in love with.

Powell’s Books is an independent bookstore that offers the largest selection of books, both bestsellers as well as the widest selection of hard to find and out of print books I have ever seen. I am all about supporting small, independent businesses not only online where small businesses have more competition than ever, but also in my every day life. I think it is so important to shop at local stores for anything you can buy through them–books, groceries, even clothes; if you can buy local and buy through independent retailers, do it, because it helps the economy in the city where you live and it’s part of being a good (and aware) human. We see “mom and pop” stores go out of business all the time due to the struggle to stay open while in the vicinity of multi-billion-dollar corporations. The local and independent stores around you need your support, most of the time, to feed their families. When you shop independently, you are helping other people instead of corporations.

In order to bring these every day sentiments into my online life, Woman Tribune is now a supporter of Powell’s Books and we urge you to support them as well! Not only has their selection impressed the pants off of me, the prices of most of their books (not just a select few, but most of their books) are cheaper than any other book retailer I have seen.

On our main page there is now a wide banner with a search embedded directly into it to make searching for books you want easy to do right from our front page! You can also search the site using the banner below. Go ahead, try it out.

We have set up a bookshelf through Powell’s Books so you can see the books we have reviewed here on Woman Tribune and buy the titles you’re interested in! You can see our bookshelf here. Books are listed in oldest-to-newest in the order we have reviewed books on the site so if you’re looking for the most recent books we’ve reviewed, go to the last page of the bookshelf.

We hope that you come to love Powell’s Books as much as we do!