This year’s award goes to the beloved Detroit shop whose octogenarian owner, Janet Webster Jones, is considered bookselling royalty. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-04-18 04:00:00 UTC ]
The Fort Worth, Tex., bookstore has grown from a 120-sq.-ft. space inside a gourmet products shop to a full-service store in the city’s cultural district. But don’t talk politics. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-04-17 04:00:00 UTC ]
Within months after this Oakland, Calif., bookstore was destroyed by fire last year, owner Brad Johnson had a new shop opened and focused on his mission of fostering curiosity, compassion, and intelligent critical thought. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-04-16 04:00:00 UTC ]
At the Bremerton, Wash.–based bookstore, community building is the top priority. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-04-14 04:00:00 UTC ]
The 250-year-old U.K.-based chain of 480 outlets has been sold for £76 million to private equity firm Modella Capital and will operate under a new name. The WH Smith brand name and travel divisions were not included in the sale. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-03-28 04:00:00 UTC ]
Change seems to come naturally to some areas. Gentrifying post-industrial swaths of Brooklyn and Queens, perhaps, are used to blocks that morph in quick time.But differences may be harder to swallow in more established neighborhoods, such as the Upper West Side, where the enclave along Broadway... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2025-03-27 10:03:09 UTC ]
Booksellers take stand against influence of conservative billionaire by limiting orders of his company’s books and placing them on lower shelvesA conservative Catholic billionaire and media owner is facing an independent bookshop rebellion in France over his influence in the publishing... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2025-03-22 06:00:42 UTC ]
The most popular bookstore in the world, an aspirational lifetime reading plan, and more of the day's top book news. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2025-03-18 18:30:00 UTC ]
Union employees at Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn have ratified a new contract that guarantees annual pay raises and provides more benefits that are designed to reduce turnover and reward skills developed on the job. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-03-14 04:00:00 UTC ]
On July 30th, 2024, East Bay Booksellers in Oakland, California was completely destroyed by a fire. The bookstore (previously DIESEL, a Bookstore) had been in that location for thirty years. In the months that followed, its owner, Brad Johnson, began keeping a journal of thoughts. What follows... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-02-26 13:46:45 UTC ]
Matthew Teller, whose books include Nine Quarters of Jerusalem, said the society’s response to the event which saw two leading booksellers detained was ‘an abject failure’A writer has left the Society of Authors (SoA) in protest after the UK’s largest writers’ body made a statement on a recent... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2025-02-20 17:34:09 UTC ]
With two booksellers remaining under house arrest in Jerusalem, a coalition of publishers, booksellers, authors, industry professionals, and activists are marking #BooksellingIsNotACrime Day, on February 22, to raise awareness of their plight. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-02-18 05:00:00 UTC ]
Edward Underhill didn’t plan on having his debut adult fiction book, The In-Between Bookstore, featuring a trans main character, come out six days before the Trump inauguration, but it’s kind of perfect timing. Especially since the book features a time slip, where Darby Madden meets his younger... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2025-02-17 12:00:00 UTC ]
Regular bookstores might be dying—but bookstores dedicated to romance novels are thriving thanks to TikTok and a desire for third places. Throughout Harvard Square, there are many bookshop brimming with the latest literary fiction and intellectual memoirs, patronized by scholarly types. But in... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2025-02-13 10:30:00 UTC ]
Community outreach is a cornerstone of independent bookselling, but it doesn’t come cheap. The Emerson Collective is helping bookstores find better ways to fund it Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-02-07 05:00:00 UTC ]
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Brandeis University Press will publish 'Bookstore Romance: Love Speaks Volumes' by former PW bookselling editor Judith Rosen, which profiles 24 couples who proposed, or held their weddings, at independent bookstores. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-02-07 05:00:00 UTC ]
Too many people in the book world have been acting as though nothing has changed since the election. They are launching a conservative imprint (as if we don’t already have enough of them) headed by someone from the Heritage Foundation with connections to Project 2025, a platform of policies so... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-02-04 09:58:03 UTC ]
After a decade of downsizing, the beloved bookseller is seeing a resurgence thanks in part to TikTok’s #BookTok and a rise in so-called third spaces. January was a long month, but we finally have some good news in 2025: Bookseller Barnes & Noble plans to open at least 60 new stores this... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2025-02-03 20:30:00 UTC ]
Independent bookstores in more than 30 cities across six continents will participate in the first synchronized Global Bookstore Crawl on April 26, coinciding with Independent Bookstore Day in the U.S. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-01-30 05:00:00 UTC ]
Since it launched in January 2020, Bookshop.org has been a popular place for readers to buy books while supporting local ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2025-01-28 15:52:54 UTC ]