The Bookshop by Evan Friss

The Bookshop by Evan Friss is a solid work of nonfiction subtitled A History of the American Bookstore. 

Friss covers topics including a bookstore run by Benjamin Franklin, the New York City bookstores Three Lives & Company, Books Are Magic, and the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop (closed down in 2009). Also detailed are sidewalk booksellers in NYC and Parnassus Books in Nashville, run by the writer Ann Patchett.  

Barnes & Noble and Amazon Books (now closed down) is also detailed, along with mention of people who put on seminars about how to open and run a bookstore.

The book has interesting content, especially the stories of modern-day bookshops.