Bookshop Santa Cruz in California and Changing Hands Bookstore in Arizona, have partnered in a drive to register Arizona voters and persuade them to vote Democrat in this year's presidential election. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-02-14 05:00:00 UTC ]
A pair of Prosecco-drinking burglars have been sentenced after police caught the two men knocking back alcohol during a break-in at Gay's the Word bookshop. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-02-13 04:34:38 UTC ]
The retailer once said it would sell “the good, the bad and the ugly.” Now it has banished objectionable volumes — and agreed to erasing the swastikas from a photo book about a Nazi takeover. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-02-09 21:35:27 UTC ]
The copy of Françoise Frenkel’s No Place to Lay One’s Head that was recently found, I’m told, in Nice, in an Emmaus Companions charity jumble sale, had a curious effect on me. Perhaps because it had been printed in Switzerland in September 1945 for Geneva-based publishers Jeheber. That... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-01-27 09:49:55 UTC ]
Sometimes you just have to read between the lines—the felines, that is! There’s something about books and cats that just go together. You’ve probably met your fair share of bookshop cats, but have you ever stumbled into a store looking for A Tale of Two Cities and left with two kitties? Otis and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-01-16 18:38:25 UTC ]
Hannah Harlow, executive director of marketing of general interest books at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, has bought the Book Shop of Beverly Farms in Beverly, Mass., together with her brother. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-01-14 05:00:00 UTC ]
Highlighting gains made by the 'human sciences' amid social unrest in France, booksellers also cite a strong showing in comics. The post France’s Bookstore Report: A ‘Positive Assessment’ for 2019 appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2020-01-13 13:30:45 UTC ]
French independent bookshops increased their sales by 7.1% last year, despite a 1.3% drop in December because of continuing yellow vest social protests and the start of transport and other strikes against national pension reform on 5th December, according to the Booksellers Observatory. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-01-12 12:12:56 UTC ]
The new online bookstore intended to benefit indies is nearly ready to go, and will launch January 28. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-01-10 05:00:00 UTC ]
The number of independent bookshops in the UK and Ireland has grown for the third consecutive year, according to new data from the Booksellers Association. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-01-09 17:00:46 UTC ]
Coven, an English language bookshop and café in Paris, has fulfilled its crowdfunding goal of around £21,000 to open a store dedicated to "intersectional feminism, engaged literature and ethical hospitality". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-01-08 16:28:22 UTC ]
Wakefield indie Rickaro Books will close its bricks and mortar bookshop in March and move its focus to its website selling rare and antique books. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-01-07 01:28:46 UTC ]
The independent family-run Kennys Bookshop & Art Gallery in Galway, Ireland, is celebrating 80 years in business this year after attributing its success to "innovation and experience". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-01-06 04:40:44 UTC ]
A crowdfunding campaign to create a “feminist safe haven” bookshop in Paris has only a week left to raise the remaining £7,000 needed to secure premises, after securing two-thirds of its financial target. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-01-02 16:26:28 UTC ]
A Kickstarter is under way to create a 'feminist safe haven' bookshop in Paris called COVEN to offer English language books, a café and range of events. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-12-20 11:14:17 UTC ]
When it was announced that the legendary bookshop Le Pont Traversé would definitely close down on the 31st of December in Paris, many French TV stations put in phone calls and tried to convince Josée Comte-Béalu to do a filmed interview. She refused every single one of them. “They are like... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-12-20 09:48:10 UTC ]
A new independent bookshop has opened in Barnsley, run by a mother and son team who became fed up watching the big chains leave their town. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-12-19 02:33:27 UTC ]
George R R Martin has opened an independent bookshop in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-12-17 08:15:25 UTC ]
Did you know that master fantasist George R.R. Martin opened his own movie theater in Santa Fe, the Jean Cocteau Cinema? Well, now he’s opening a bookstore next door, Beastly Books. As Martin writes, on his blog: We’ve been doing amazing author events at the Jean Cocteau Cinema ever since we... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-12-16 16:24:28 UTC ]
The Times Literary Supplement has opened a new online shop selling books, prints of its covers and illustrations alongside branded merchandise. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-12-16 03:59:25 UTC ]