[4][5][6] Feminist Bookstore News was founded by Carol Seajay after the First National Women in Print Conference, intended to help the community that had attended stay in touch with each other.
By 1988 the publication was 48 pages long and issues were professionally printed roughly every two months.
[12] As feminist bookstores became less common due to chain stores and online shopping, the subscriber count of FBN dropped, and publication eventually ceased in 2000.
[11] Book lists were common in FBN, with a focus on connecting readers with resources and supporting authors.
[10] A similar effort took place with The Female Man by Joanna Russ, which went out of print in 1977 and was also re-released in 1978 after advocacy from feminist booksellers coordinated by FBN.