By large majorities, Indigo shareholders approved the sale of the Canadian bookstore chain to private equity firms controlled by Canadian billionaire Gerald Schwartz, an Indigo board member and the husband of Indigo founder and CEO Heather Reisman. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-05-28 04:00:00 UTC ]
Today's links include the continued rise in independent bookstores, a master bookseller on bookselling, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-05-24 19:41:49 UTC ]
In “Reading the Room,” Paul Yamazaki, the chief buyer for City Lights Booksellers, calls this “one of the richest and most rewarding times” to be a literature fan. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-05-23 09:00:58 UTC ]
Charges have been dropped against four of the 11 people charged with mischief and criminal harassment, which police called "hate-motivated," after an Indigo bookstore was vandalized last fall. Continue reading >> [ Source: CBC | 2024-05-22 13:48:29 UTC ]
The management of Chicago's Seminary Co-op and and 57th Street Books has voluntarily recognized a union formed by bookseller employees of the member-owned cooperative. SCBU IU 660 is a branch of the Industrial Workers of the World. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-05-21 04:00:00 UTC ]
A local electrical engineer with a passion for literature is on a mission to share the stories of local authors who have struggled to break into the mainstream publishing industry. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2024-05-20 10:00:37 UTC ]
Sales at bookstores were down slightly in 2023 and fell again in the first quarter of 2024, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau. But is the decline due to a drop in sales, or a change in how sales—particularly sales from college stores—are reported? Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-05-20 04:00:00 UTC ]
Cool stuff was everywhere I looked. A compendium of Latin American folk tales. A young-adult version of radio legend Maria Hinojosa's memoir. Picture books teaching Spanish speakers words in Nahuatl and Maya. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2024-05-15 13:00:39 UTC ]
For this year's Independent Bookstore Day, held on April 27, hundreds of indies across the country extended their celebration across the entire weekend as crowds crawled from one shop to the next, snapping up books. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-04-29 04:00:00 UTC ]
The American Booksellers Association has filed a motion with the Federal Trade Commission seeking to fix a hole in the FTC’s antitrust complaint against Amazon that many in the industry agree needs correcting: that it did not specifically include what Amazon’s practices have done to book... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-04-29 04:00:00 UTC ]
🎵 It’s the moooost wonderfullll tiiiiime of the yeaaaar!🎵 That’s right, folks: tomorrow is perhaps the greatest book-related holiday on the calendar: Independent Bookstore Day! As I’ve been saying at the top of bookstore events at my local indie (where I moonlight as the events manager), every... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-04-26 14:15:13 UTC ]
Seminary Co-op booksellers and friends have held a number of conversations with legendary bookseller Paul Yamazaki throughout the past two years, in the intoxicating stacks of City Lights, perambulating the streets of San Francisco, and over whiskey tumblers deep into the night. With Paul we’ve... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-04-19 08:59:44 UTC ]
This year’s top honor goes to a 128-year-old store that is beloved by its community, plays host to vibrant literary events for authors large and small, and serves as an anchor business for the Village of La Jolla, Calif. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-04-19 04:00:00 UTC ]
In the past decade, Writer’s Block, which sells new books for both adults and children, has become a literary hub of the Greater Orlando metro area. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-04-18 04:00:00 UTC ]
The Red Balloon, founded in 1984 in St. Paul, Minn., specializes in books for children of all ages. It has been a community gathering space for decades. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-04-17 04:00:00 UTC ]
Cofounded in Calle 24, San Francisco’s Latino cultural district, in 2021, the bookstore specializes in radical literature, poetry, and Spanish-language titles, and embodies the Mission District’s storied revolutionary spirit. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-04-16 04:00:00 UTC ]
Founded in 1973, Antigone Books stands strong as a Tucson, Ariz., feminist landmark. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-04-15 04:00:00 UTC ]
The Lavender Rhino, an online independent bookstore with a focus on titles by LGBTQ authors, will launch on April 6, with ambitions to open a brick-and-mortar store at a later date. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-04-04 04:00:00 UTC ]
The buyout offer is expected to close in June, when Indigo will be removed from Toronto's stock market, the company going private. The post Canada’s Indigo Bookstore Chain Agrees to a Buyout Offer appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2024-04-03 21:44:05 UTC ]
On March 10, 2016, I became a bookseller. I was on a quest to bring back a lost form of bookstore. The kind that offers a creative space for exchanging ideas and an enduring, steadfast haven. A diametric contrast to all things seasonal and ephemeral, to second-rate books flaunted on bestseller... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-04-03 08:54:29 UTC ]