Editing MIT Press (section)

==MIT Press Bookstore==
Since 1980,<ref name="MITP-UPW">{{cite web |title=The MIT Press Bookstore |url=https://mitpress.mit.edu/the-mit-press-bookstore/ |website=MIT Press |access-date=2023-04-27 |date=7 November 2019}}</ref> the MIT Press Bookstore has been a regional attraction in the heart of the [[Kendall Square]] technology and innovation hub in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]]. The bookstore is one of a small number of such outlets operated by any university publisher.<ref name="MITP-Home">{{cite web |title=(Homepage) |url=http://mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/ |website=The MIT Press Bookstore |access-date=2023-04-27}}</ref><ref name="MITP-History"/> It has offered a complete selection of Press titles for browsing and retail purchase, plus a large selection of complementary works from other academic and trade publishers, including magazines and academic journals.<ref name="Hoodline">{{cite web |title=The 5 best bookstores in Cambridge |url=https://hoodline.com/2018/10/the-5-best-bookstores-in-cambridge/ |website=Hoodline |publisher=SFist LLC |access-date=2023-04-27 |language=en |date=15 October 2018}}</ref><ref name="MITP-Home"/>

Starting in October 2016, the Bookstore was temporarily relocated to [[Central Square, Cambridge|Central Square]], just north of the original location of the [[MIT Museum]], because of extensive construction in Kendall Square.<ref>{{cite web |title=Following the Bookstore to its New Location |url=https://mitpress.mit.edu/following-the-bookstore-to-its-new-location/ |website=MIT Press |access-date=2023-04-27 |date=18 November 2016}}</ref> In 2022, the Bookstore moved into a new building at [[Pi|314]] Main Street,<ref name="Kirsner"/> adjacent to a newly-renovated subway entrance to [[Kendall/MIT station]].<ref name="Kirsner">{{cite web |last1=Kirsner |first1=Scott |title=Kendall Square remains a work in progress. Here’s what’s under construction |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/11/13/business/kendall-square-remains-work-progress/?event=event12 |website=BostonGlobe |publisher=Boston Globe Media Partners, LLC |access-date=2023-04-27 |date=November 13, 2022}}</ref> Sharing the same building, in 2022 the MIT Museum moved to Kendall Square for the first time, including its newly-expanded museum store.<ref name="MITMuseum">{{cite web |title=Move to Kendall FAQs |url=https://mitmuseum.mit.edu/move-kendall-faqs |website=MIT Museum |access-date=2020-03-23}}</ref><ref name="Chandler">{{cite web |last1=Chandler |first1=David L. |title=A new era set to begin in Kendall Square |url=http://news.mit.edu/2016/new-era-kendall-square-initiative-cambridge-planning-board-0518 |website=MIT News |publisher=MIT |access-date=2020-03-23 |date=May 17, 2016}}</ref><ref name="Kirsner"/>

The relocated bookstore has adopted the slogan "Kendall Square's Underground Bookstore", acknowledging its underground location<ref name="Kirsner"/> below the MIT Museum (although with a large opening affording a direct view into its space from the street). In addition to expanding its coverage of academic and technical publications in both the sciences and the humanities, the MIT Press Bookstore features an expanded kid-friendly area dedicated to educational books for children and pre-teens.<ref name="MITP-Home"/> The bookstore also features a selection of travel and historical guides to Boston and the surrounding region, from a variety of publishers.