Whois & Analysis for powells.com

An independent bookstore is a retail bookstore which is independently owned.

Usually, independent stores consist of only a single actual store (although there are some multi-store independents).

They may be structured as sole proprietorships, closely held corporations or partnerships (i.e. a small number of shareholders or partners), cooperatives, or nonprofits.

Independent stores can be contrasted with chain bookstores, which have many locations and are owned by large corporations which often have other divisions besides bookselling.

Powell's Books is a chain of bookstores in Portland, Oregon, and its surrounding metropolitan area.

Powell's headquarters, dubbed Powell's City of Books, claims to be the largest independent new and used bookstore in the world.

Powell's City of Books is located in the Pearl District on the edge of downtown and occupies a full city block between NW 10th and 11th Avenues and between W.

Burnside and NW Couch Streets.

It contains over, about 1.6 acres of retail floor space.

CNN rates it one of the ten "coolest" bookstores in the world.

Portland is a port and the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon and the seat of Multnomah County.

It is in the Willamette Valley region of the Pacific Northwest, at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia Rivers.

The city covers and had an estimated population of 632,309 in 2015, making it the 26th most populous city in the United States.

Approximately 2,389,228 people live in the Portland metropolitan statistical area (MSA), the 23rd most populous MSA in the United States.

Its Combined Statistical Area (CSA) ranks 17th with a population of 3,022,178.

Roughly 60% of Oregon's population resides within the Portland metropolitan area.

An out-of-print book is a book that is no longer being published.

The term can apply to specific editions of more popular works, which may then go in and out of print repeatedly, or to the sole printed edition of a work, which is not picked up again by any future publishers for reprint.

Most works that have ever been published are out of print at any given time, while certain highly popular books, such as the Bible, are always "in print".

Less popular out of print books are often rare and may be difficult to acquire unless scanned or electronic copies of the books are available.

With the advent of book scanning, and print-on-demand technology, fewer and fewer works are now considered truly out of print.