In bookstores' L.A. heyday, shops were as ubiquitous as a certain coffee chain is today. But we're no slouches today, even if the internet removed many stores' physical presences. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2023-11-14 16:00:50 UTC ]
Helped by the bookselling community, Akimbo reopened in April after a fire destroyed its first location. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-11-03 04:00:00 UTC ]
San Jose children's bookstore Hicklebee's has a new owner for the first time since its founding in 1979. As of midnight on October 31, sisters Monica Holmes and Valerie Lewis are handing the reins to Laura Gahrahmat, a newcomer to bookselling. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-10-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
The King's English Bookshop in Salt Lake City doubles down on supporting Drag Story Hours following a bomb threat, and is preparing to launch a new venture, Mosaics Community Bookstore and Venue. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-10-19 04:00:00 UTC ]
A move to the sale of more digital products in the educational market, through new purchasing options for college students, is likely one of the reasons a big decline came the month before school starts. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-10-19 04:00:00 UTC ]
One of the country's best known independent bookstores plans to use the bankruptcy process to become a smaller, modern, financially sustainable business. It is in the process of closing three of its seven locations. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-10-17 04:00:00 UTC ]
More than merely the anti-Amazon, the online book retailer and Brands That Matter honoree has built its own community of devoted readers. Literary staying power can be hard to achieve: Beach reads don’t often become Penguin Classics. The three-year-old Bookshop.org, which sells books to... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2023-10-03 07:00:00 UTC ]
Comic book store owners share their advice on how to open a comic book store — and how to keep it in business! Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2023-09-26 10:35:00 UTC ]
The co-owner of San Francisco's Bookshop West Portal and founder of onetime Bay Area bookselling staple A Clean Well-Lighted Place for Books, died on September 6. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-09-18 04:00:00 UTC ]
Bookstore sales fell 1.3% in July, slipping from $595 million last year to $587 million in 2023, according to preliminary estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-09-15 04:00:00 UTC ]
This unique comic book stores across the United States have so much more to offer than just comics. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2023-08-29 10:30:00 UTC ]
It's been more than three years since the launch of online retailer Bookshop.org, and the online retailer is eager to remove Amazon’s stranglehold on online sales. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-08-25 04:00:00 UTC ]
Despite a dip in June, sales increased 6.9% at bookstores during the first six months of 2023 over last year, rising to $3.86 billion. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-08-15 04:00:00 UTC ]
With lists on cute cryptids, decolonial SFF, trans comics, and more, these indie bookstore websites are as fun to browse as their shelves! Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2023-08-08 10:32:00 UTC ]
Michael Chabon—the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Wonder Boys, and The Yiddish Policeman’s Union—spent his Covid quarantine taking a trip…through time! Well, not literally, but in an emotional and curatorial sense, the speculative fiction maestro... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-08-04 16:04:28 UTC ]
A part of Arkansas' Act 372 would make it a crime for booksellers and librarians to give minors certain state-disapproved books. The post A US Court Temporarily Blocks a Library and Bookstore Law appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2023-07-31 00:15:55 UTC ]
In 2009, two bookshops a week were closing in the UK and the days of physical books seemed numbered. Now, indie stores are booming. What explains the turnaround – and can it be sustained?When Sarah Mullen was asked to set up a children’s book festival in a leafy suburb of Birmingham in 2012, she... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-07-27 09:00:32 UTC ]
The seven-year-old Seattle-based Libro.fm opens a Bookshop.org-style audiobook-selling service in the UK, Australia, and New Zealand. The post Libro.fm Opens, Audiobook Sales Through Local Bookstores appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2023-07-26 13:34:20 UTC ]
After falling in April, bookstore sales rose 6% in May over 2022, rising to $650 million from $613 million a year ago. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-07-18 04:00:00 UTC ]
Two days after New England and the Mid-Atlantic were inundated with record rainfall that left parts of Vermont and other states flooded, booksellers in the region are recovering. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-07-12 04:00:00 UTC ]