Print book sales and store traffic are on the rise. Plus: Book Riot's best books of 2024, adaptation news, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-07-10 15:00:00 UTC ]
Have you heard? Romance is booming online and IRL. Print sales surge with the help of teens and social media. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-07-09 15:00:00 UTC ]
The ABA has unveiled "Indies Take The Gold," an Olympics-themed marketing campaign encouraging people to shop at independent bookstores on Amazon Prime Days, July 16 and 17. The Paris summer Olympics begin July 26. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-06-27 04:00:00 UTC ]
A woman accidentally buys a bookstore apparently, Libro at 10, cool library spaces are all in today's most interesting book news. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-06-20 17:06:13 UTC ]
Print sales are up. Celebrity picture books. Instagrammable Bookstores. These and more on Book Riot today Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-06-20 16:03:10 UTC ]
The Womb House Books bricks-and-mortar store, which opened on June 15, features the carefully curated, women-focused vintage titles that are the Etsy shop's bread and butter, with the addition of frontlist books. Owner Jessica Ferris is doing it all on her own—and loving every minute. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-06-20 04:00:00 UTC ]
Amid growing efforts to censor and ban LGBTQ+ books, one small bookstore in San Francisco is punching back. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2024-06-19 10:00:54 UTC ]
Following months of uncertainty, B&N will buy the bankrupt but beloved Denver bookstore chain. The four remaining Tattered Cover locations will continue to operate under that name. B&N anticipates that it will retain a majority of the company's 70 employees. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-06-18 04:00:00 UTC ]
The Brooklyn book collector with 50,000 books at home, a first look at the new Lord of the Rings movie, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-06-13 15:00:00 UTC ]
Bill Hall, the proprietor, has assembled a vast collection of hard-to-find fashion books and magazines coveted by designers and influencers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-06-12 09:03:57 UTC ]
B Is for Books allows kids and families to browse, read, and select up to three books to take home. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-06-07 04:00:00 UTC ]
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 ]
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 ]