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 ]
Jerusalem's Educational Bookshop has focused on Palestinian literature and nonfiction since its first location opened in 1984. The post Jerusalem’s Educational Bookshop at 39 Years: ‘The Palestinian Point of View’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2023-07-11 18:34:49 UTC ]
An Asian American-owned bookstore in Manhattan’s Chinatown left gutted by a July fourth fire is getting flooded with support from the community, writers and celebrities Continue reading >> [ Source: ABC News | 2023-07-07 18:01:56 UTC ]
A growing crop of indie booksellers in the area are aiming to be multipurpose spaces for their neighborhoods. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-07-07 04:00:00 UTC ]
The woman and Asian American–owned bookstore, in the Chinatown neighborhood in Manhattan, will require a total renovation over the next year due to a fire in a residential unit above its premises. It topped its goal of $150,000 overnight. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-07-07 04:00:00 UTC ]
A transgender woman, the owners of an independent bookstore and an educator who teaches in costume are among those challenging Montana's first-in-the-nation law that bans people dressed in drag from reading to children in public schools or libraries Continue reading >> [ Source: ABC News | 2023-07-07 01:02:34 UTC ]
A transgender woman, the owners of an independent bookstore and an educator who teaches in costume are among those challenging Montana's first-in-the-nation law that bans people dressed in drag from reading to children in public schools or libraries Continue reading >> [ Source: ABC News | 2023-07-07 00:47:04 UTC ]
NASCAR's Chicago street race during the holiday weekend shut down many businesses along the route, including Exile in Bookville, which sustained thousands of dollars in losses. Some of that loss was alleviated by a spike in online orders by customers wanting to support the store. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-07-05 04:00:00 UTC ]
A new queer indie bookstore is splitting profits with LGBTQ authors and spreading queer joy and literacy with a rainbow book bus. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2023-06-20 10:40:00 UTC ]
After rising 11.9% in the first quarter of 2023, bookstore sales fell 0.9% in April from a year ago, dropping to $580 million from $585 million, according to estimates from the government. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-06-15 04:00:00 UTC ]