Author James Patterson is spearheading a group that includes Reese Witherspoon, Reese’s Book Club, the Book Industry Charitable Foundation, and the American Booksellers Association in an effort to raise millions of dollars to help save independent bookstores. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-04-02 04:00:00 UTC ]
Save Your Bookstore points you to the best way to get cash to shuttered booksellers near you. As COVID-19 has forced small bookstores to close, many are wondering how they’ll survive—though a surge in support from communities placing online orders is helping. A new app is designed to let you... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2020-04-01 14:00:29 UTC ]
Starting this week, Washington D.C.’s Kramerbooks & Afterwords Cafe is using Postmates, an app largely used for food delivery, to get books in the hands of readers in the D.C. area. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-04-01 04:00:00 UTC ]
The Andover Bookstores, America’s oldest continuously operated independent bookstore, is turning to customers to help ensure its doors will open again when the new coronavirus passes. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-04-01 04:00:00 UTC ]
Sixteen-year-old Porter Square Books is the first New England bookstore in more than a decade to receive this honor and the second bookstore in Cambridge, Mass. Texan Bob Barnett, a sales representative for 25 years, was named Rep of the Year. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-04-01 04:00:00 UTC ]
Bookshop.org has reached a new milestone in generating revenue for independent bookstores. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-03-31 20:01:01 UTC ]
Simon & Schuster has launched a company-wide effort to support the newly established independent bookseller–focused online bookstore Bookshop.org and its affiliate network of independent booksellers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-03-31 04:00:00 UTC ]
Indie booksellers in New England and in California will be getting additional assistance from their regional bookstore associations, including management counselling, tech support, and promotional opportunities. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-03-30 04:00:00 UTC ]
Portland's beloved indie bookstore Powell's Books rehired more than 100 employees after seeing a surge in online orders. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2020-03-29 18:12:16 UTC ]
Regional independent booksellers associations are working to support their members with information, digital resources, virtual events, promotions, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-03-27 04:00:00 UTC ]
Two West Coast booksellers have found success with custom care packages during Covid-19 closures, shipping books, gifts, and cards to customers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-03-27 04:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin Random House UK c.e.o. Tom Weldon says the company is actively seeking ways of helping struggling booksellers during the coronavirus lockdown. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-26 21:42:26 UTC ]
Bookstores in numerous states are facing a crush of online sales, offering delivery and pickup to customers, and applying for waivers to keep doing so as public health orders grow more strict. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-03-26 04:00:00 UTC ]
We’ve already brought your attention to the ways you can help bookstores (and bookstore workers) during the coronavirus pandemic, and here’s another one: a collective of recently laid-off booksellers has started an online storefront at Bookshop.org (in case you missed it, Bookshop is the new... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-03-25 15:14:23 UTC ]
More than a dozen out-of-work booksellers in New York City have launched The Bookstore at the End of the World on Bookshop.org, to "make money doing what they do best." Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-03-25 04:00:00 UTC ]
Chicago authors are spotlighting the unique plight of two local indies that both closed to walk-in traffic on March 16: one bookstore that was only officially open for one day, and another that had changed ownership two weeks earlier. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-03-25 04:00:00 UTC ]
The publishing industry looks for the way forward–in a world in which what's truly essential simply may not include physical bookselling for a time. The post Weekend Reality Check: Our Bookstores and What’s ‘Essential’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2020-03-23 14:30:16 UTC ]
The Strand bookstore confirmed Sunday that 188 employees, the majority of the bookstore’s staff, have been let go in the wake of the Covid-19 outbreak. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-03-22 04:00:00 UTC ]
The impact of the coronavirus has seen the Booksellers Association issue a rallying cry to the trade, as many publishers enforce home working to safeguard staff. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-19 23:39:55 UTC ]
Bookshop.org, an alternative to Amazon that shares proceeds from book sales with independent bookstores, will give more money to those stores in response to the coronavirus pandemic and its impact on small businesses. Bookshop announced today that it would increase bookstore partners’ affiliate... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-03-18 15:09:12 UTC ]