Independent bookshops can win £500 and a visit from Jonny Duddle via a new window display competition, organised by Templar Publishing. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-06-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
More than 420 indie bookshops are taking part in this year’s Independent Bookshop Week, which has been hailed as “bigger and better than ever” by the Booksellers Association. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-06-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bookwitty.com, the global, online bookseller based in Paris, has stopped taking and fulfilling orders and is shutting down the site. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
The sluggish start of bookstore sales continued in April. Total sales reported by the U.S. Census Bureau fell 2.9% in April compared to April 2017, dropping to $669 million. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bookstore sales fell 3.0% in April compared to the same month last year, according to preliminary estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Booksellers Association president Nic Bottomley yesterday urged parliamentarians to support its representations to government to give "heroic" bookshops the same business rate exemptions as pubs in recognition of their community value. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-06-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Madison, Wisc.-based bookstore is changing hands. The bookstore's longtime co-owners announced yesterday that two current employees will become owner-managers of the 43-year-old business on July 1. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
This week, we have views from the corporate headquarters of Kinokuniya, showing off its 30th world bookstore location, just opened in May as the company's first store in Cambodia. The post Friday Photos: Japan’s Kinokuniya Company Opens Its First Bookstore in Cambodia appeared first on... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-06-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Waterstones is to create a pop up bookshop on the Scottish island of Benbecula, which has just 1,300 residents. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Stockbridge branch to open under Waterstones name rather than appearing independent Waterstones has backtracked on plans to open one of its new unbranded stores in a district of Edinburgh that is already home to an independent bookshop – following an outcry that included criticism from figures... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2018-05-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
As other companies have done, Świat Książki has gained traction in part by taking over some locations of the distressed Matras chain in Poland's bookstore marketplace. The post Świat Książki Closes in on Second Place Among Polish Bookstore Chains appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bookstore sales rose 3.5% in March over March 2017. Despite the March gain, bookstore sales were still down 2.8% in the first quarter of 2018 compared to the first period of 2017. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
If a bookstore takes the name of the city in which it resides, it had better reflect the values and character of its hometown. Boulder Book Store, PW’s 2018 Bookstore of the Year, does just that. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-05-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Politics and Prose and Harvard Book Store both have newly minted sections for romance books, signs of growing interest in a genre that indie booksellers have traditionally paid little attention to. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-05-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Second Home is to open a new poetry bookshop at its Holland Park collaborative working branch in London, at the same time as launching a "bold and joyous" five-day poetry festival. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-05-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
The way to open a new poetry bookstore at a communal office, says the UK's Second Home, is to hold a poetry festival on the premises. The company's Holland Park facility is the venue in June. The post Five-Day Poetry Fest Will Launch London’s New Second Home Bookstore appeared first on... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-05-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
More than 500 bookstores participated in this year's Independent Bookstore Day, which took place across the U.S. this past Saturday, April 28. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
A window in London-based gay and lesbian bookshop Gay's the Word has been smashed. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
More than 500 Indie bookstores in 48 states are preparing to make this year's Independent Bookstore Day on April 28 the biggest and most exuberant celebration of indie bookselling yet. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-04-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
KiCam Projects, an independent publisher based in Georgetown, Ohio, has opened a bookstore in nearby Mount Orab to serve suburban and rural readers on the outskirts of the Cincinnati area. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-04-16 00:00:00 UTC ]