A calligrapher tries her hand at bookselling; a bookseller preps to run her town; two U.S. cities land on a list of the most bookstore-heavy places in the world; and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-07-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
A Minnesota mall buys a bookstore; stores in Arizona and North Carolina relocate; the world's oldest LGBT bookstore is reinvigorated; and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-07-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Rhode Island gets a bookstore bar; BAM's used book concept spreads to two more states; National Coloring Day prep begins; and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-07-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
One of the nation’s largest, Mexico's bookstore chain named for Mahatma Gandhi increasingly depends on non-book sales to stay ahead, according to the company’s marketing manager. The post ‘Wallpaper the Country With Books’: Mexico’s Gandhi Bookstores appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2016-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
A liquor store transitions to a bookstore in Minnesota; a feminist shop makes a comeback in Canada; a minimum wage hike hits a California store; and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-07-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
A filmmaker sets the scene for a new bookstore in rural North Carolina; a mystery writer gets a bookstore of his own in Georgia; and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-07-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Spate of openings of ‘destination’ stores as owners offer drinks, performances and crafts to tempt customers away from Amazon It’s children’s story hour at the Book Nook in Hove and the owner, Vanessa Lewis, is doing a reading of Julia Donaldson’s rhyming picture book The Detective Dog. Related:... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2016-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bookstore sales cooled slightly in May, but spending still rose for the fifth straight month this year. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-07-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Two bookstores--a mobile one and a bricks-and-mortar--prep to open in Kansas; a Pennsylvania store partners up; an Iowa shop goes on the block; and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-07-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
A new website selling books has launched offering one-hour delivery in London, and connecting readers to bookshops in the capital through the “near me” search on their smartphones. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-07-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
The sudden popularity of the smartphone video game Pokémon Go is sending people into bookstores and, in some cases, driving up sales at those stores. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-07-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
B&N College finds the beauty in bookselling; Amazon primes a new pickup location at University of Illinois; the world’s oldest LGBT bookstore looks for funding; and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-07-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
The White Horse Bookshop is sponsoring the Richard Jefferies Society Writers’ Prize while the book trade is experiencing a “golden age of nature writing”. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-07-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
One year after Inkshares, which uses crowdfunding to determine what to publish, began courting indies, it is publishing its first bookstore-generated title, an anthology from Boston's Papercuts J.P. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-07-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
BAM launches a fundraiser for West Virginia libraries; a break-in sets back an Asheville bookstore; a San Francisco institution turns 40; and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-07-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
A Maine store with a Richard Russo connection preps for a September opening; a beloved North Carolina institution readies a new permanent home; B&N cuts back in IT; and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-07-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Princeton Architectural Press' Paper + Goods Storefront is located next door to the publisher's new offices in Hudson, N.Y. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-07-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Blackwell’s is set to open a consumer-focused bookshop in Oxford Westgate Shopping Centre – the company’s fourth bookshop in the city. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-07-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon takes Manhattan; Ohioans get a bookstore; Morris Book Shop in Kentucky for sale; and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-07-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
A former corrections officer to open a bookshop in Utah; a rabbi and children's author turns bookseller in D.C.; Kansas University Jayhawks will need to find a new bookstore; and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-06-30 00:00:00 UTC ]