Why Shop at Litchfield Books?

To Support the Local Economy
–  For every $10.00 you spend here, $4.50 stays in this community.  When you spend $10.00 at a chain store, only $1.30 stays in this area. (Our owners and all of our employees live here, we bank locally and we buy many of our supplies from local businesses).  When you spend $10.00 on-line, nothing stays local.

To Support the Environment
–  Shipments that arrive at Litchfield Books including special orders–average 24 books per box.  When you order one or two books at a time from amazon, your orders use 6 times more packaging than books purchased from us.  And because all of that extra packaging takes up three times as much space, when you order from amazon you are tripling the number of trucks required to bring books to our area from warehouses hundreds of miles away, compared to buying books from us.

To Support Community
–  Litchfield Books contributes to the cultural life of our community by creating a space for authors–  from around the country and from around the world–to meet with their readers.
–  We contribute to dozens of local schools and community organizations.
–  The taxes our business pays support everything from parks to police to fixing potholes. On-line businesses do nothing to support our community.

To Support Diversity
–  You wouldn’t want your house to look the same as everyone else’s. So why would you want your community to look that way, with nothing but the same chain stores you can find anywhere and everywhere?   Independent, locally owned businesses add character to a community.