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 ]
🎵 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 ]
Fortified by advice and tips from Ann Patchett and Emma Straub, her fellow authors-turned-indie-booksellers, the author of 'Fates and Furies' and 'Matrix' readies to open her new bookstore, the Lynx, in downtown Gainesville, Fla., this spring. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-03-18 04:00:00 UTC ]
There’s a new online bookstore in town—and this time it’s helmed by RuPaul. Yes, that RuPaul. (Reading being, after all, fundamental.) Allstora, announced today*, is a membership-based bookstore that offers a profit-split to authors. RuPaul serves as Allstora’s Chief Creative Officer and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-03-04 16:45:28 UTC ]
With its award ceremony coming up in May, the British Book Awards program has released its bookstore and small-press shortlists. The post The UK’s Nibbies: Small Press and Bookstore Shortlists appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2024-03-04 16:24:55 UTC ]
Book Rack is the second San Gabriel Valley bookstore to face a reckoning this year. The owner of Vroman's in Pasadena put the store up for sale because he wants to retire. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2024-02-26 11:00:30 UTC ]
Before running the bookshop, Yeongju had never considered whether she was suitable to be a bookseller. She thought, rather naively, that anyone who loves books could be one. It was only when she started her own bookshop that she realized she had a serious shortcoming. She fumbled questions such... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-02-23 09:44:53 UTC ]
This was a regular feature of my childhood, though it feels so long ago and far away, conceptually as well as literally, that I nearly forgot it ever happened: I’d go into town to the mall with my mom, and she’d drop me at the doors of the Borders or Barnes and Noble while she […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-02-19 09:55:59 UTC ]
The Ripped Bodice knows the romance genre inside and out — and they revealed the swoon-worthy books to read right now. Continue reading >> [ Source: HuffPost | 2024-02-13 10:45:18 UTC ]
Vroman’s is a community landmark in Pasadena, Calif. Now, its longtime owner says he’s ready to turn over the reins. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-02-08 14:22:44 UTC ]
Womb House Books owner Jessica Ferri's carefully curated listings have turned her online storefront into the favorite bookseller of Emma Roberts, Natalie Portman, and thousands of Etsy customers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-01-26 05:00:00 UTC ]