Shelf Talkers is a new series at Lit Hub where booksellers from independent bookstores around the country share their favorite reads of the moment. Here are recommendations from the staff at The Bookshop, a store in East Nashville, Tennessee, founded in 2016. * Kyle Lucia Wu, Win Me Something... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-04-11 08:51:17 UTC ]
I decided to become a volunteer at my local anarchistic bookstore during the pandemic. This is what it's like. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2022-04-08 10:35:00 UTC ]
New Yorkers still tell stories of browsing at Harlem’s Liberation Bookstore or spending the afternoon at Scribner’s. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-04-01 09:03:09 UTC ]
January bookstore sales increased to $914 million in 2022 over 2021, but were 7.7% below bookstore sales in January 2020. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-03-16 04:00:00 UTC ]
The five bookstore finalists and five sales rep finalists have been announced in PW's annual award program. Winners will be announced at PW's U.S. Book Show set for May 23-26. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-03-15 04:00:00 UTC ]
After opening its first bookstore with much fanfare in November 2015, Amazon is closing all of its 24 physical bookstores as well as its 4-star and pop-up stores, which carry a mix of items, including some books. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-03-03 05:00:00 UTC ]
The retail giant will shut its bookstore in San Jose and Walnut Creek, as well as it its 4-star stores in Burlingame, Berkeley and Corte Madera as part of a company-wide brick-and-mortar reset. Continue reading >> [ Source: Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2022-03-02 23:22:50 UTC ]
Indie booksellers everywhere were disappointed when the American Booksellers Association called off this year's Winter Institute in Cincinnati, but local booksellers were even more disappointed: they had been looking forward to showing off their city’s rich literary offerings. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-02-25 05:00:00 UTC ]
Bookstore sales increased 28% in 2021 over 2020, according to preliminary estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. Sales were $9.03 billion, compared to sales of $6.50 billion in pandemic-ravaged 2020. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-02-16 05:00:00 UTC ]
A brief but happy update: The Bookseller has reported that Samir Mansour Bookshop, the largest bookstore in Gaza, will reopen next week after being destroyed by an Israeli airstrike last May. The reopening was made possible by a GoFundMe campaign led by human rights lawyers Mahvish Rukhsana and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-02-07 16:07:29 UTC ]
A Tennessee school board removed the graphic novel about the Holocaust from middle school curriculums. Continue reading >> [ Source: HuffPost | 2022-02-02 08:44:58 UTC ]
Works by writers like bell hooks, Damon Young and James Baldwin that will educate and make an impact on everyone. Continue reading >> [ Source: HuffPost | 2022-01-31 16:37:38 UTC ]
I have a terrible habit of going on the internet and looking at properties I can’t afford. (A hobby many of my fellow millennials share, I’m sure.) From my cramped Brooklyn apartment with pots of spaghetti piled haphazardly in the kitchen, I like to criticize the design choices of millionaires... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-01-28 19:45:49 UTC ]
To mark its second anniversary, Bookshop.org, has started what it is calling the Golden Bookmark Sweepstakes, which will award one person $600 in Bookshop.org gift cards each year for life, as well as a one-time prize of $500 to donate to a bookstore of their choice. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-01-28 05:00:00 UTC ]
A government report sheds light on the status of bricks-and-mortar stores in the late 2010s. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-01-21 05:00:00 UTC ]
Bookstore sales were $709 million in November, up 43% from November 2020, according to preliminary estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-01-18 05:00:00 UTC ]
The Bookseller’s annual Christmas trading survey, backed up by new data from the Booksellers Association, suggests that the majority of indie booksellers had an excellent festive sales period. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-16 11:21:18 UTC ]
Two decades ago, I wrote my very first novel while working at The Community Bookstore, an independent bookstore in Brooklyn, New York. That job enabled me to complete my book, not just because of the flexible hours, but because the other staffers were all aspiring writers, and many of our... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-01-12 09:50:45 UTC ]
Fable, a mobile platform for online book clubs that launched in early 2021, has announced $20 million in Series A funding, which will used to expand the company's services, such as the recently launched club with 'Lord of the Rings' actor Sean Astin. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-01-11 05:00:00 UTC ]
The number of independent bookshops in the UK and Ireland has grown for the fifth consecutive year despite challenges brought by the pandemic, the Booksellers Association says. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-07 22:34:12 UTC ]