You won't make a living wage working as a bookseller in an indie bookstore. Here's a look at wages across the country. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2023-06-12 10:37:00 UTC ]
Book business advocacy organizations, including the Association of American Publishers, will join a federal lawsuit over a law recently signed into effect by Arkansas governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders that exposes librarians in the state to criminal liability for making allegedly “obscene” books... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-05-26 04:00:00 UTC ]
Today in good news, the American Booksellers Association announced that membership is at its highest level in 20 years. Per reporting by Hillel Italie at the Associated Press: The ABA added 173 members last year, and now has 2,185 bookstore businesses and 2,599 locations. Three years after the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-05-22 15:55:36 UTC ]
In a virtual awards show, 'PW' editorial director Jim Milliot named Midtown Scholar in Harrisburg, Pa., the Bookstore of the Year and PRH's Emily Bates the Sales Rep of the Year. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-05-22 04:00:00 UTC ]
A cornerstone of the Reimagining Bookstores campaign is encouraging booksellers to rethink “outdated” frameworks for maximizing profits and instead emphasizing bookstores’ social value—and now, organizers say, is the time to double down on that. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-05-19 04:00:00 UTC ]
Three months of double-digit increases resulted in bookstore sales rising to $2.07 billion in the first quarter of 2023, from $1.83 billion in the first period of 2022. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-05-16 04:00:00 UTC ]
At Edmonds Bookshop in the historic town center of Edmonds, Wash., Michelle Bear refers to herself not as the owner but as “the most recent and honored caretaker.” Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-05-12 04:00:00 UTC ]
Reimagining Bookstores, facilitated by Kepler’s Praveen Madan, aims to revamp book industry hierarchies. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-05-12 04:00:00 UTC ]
The first time I sliced open a box of books in my new bookshop, I breathed in deeply. The pulpy starch of the paper caught in the back of my throat, while the faint chemical sting of the new ink burned high in my nostrils. I imagined a world where this smell was a constant […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-05-09 08:53:39 UTC ]
A 57-year-old “self-styled poet” (aren’t they all?) has spent $116,000 of his own money to build a bookstore in a mountaintop village. Oh, and it’s shaped like the number 7 and contains 7,000 books. No, this is not a parable. As Jiang Libo told the South China Morning Post: Before my bookshop... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-05-08 15:04:22 UTC ]
Forty years ago, my not-yet-gentrified neighborhood in Brooklyn had one bookstore, Mostly Books. When the owner retired, it became a video store (RIP Cousins). Then it was derelict, then it was councilman’s office, and now it’s (obviously) a real estate office. But in all those years, a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-05-08 15:00:19 UTC ]
Respect and support to Wasilla, Alaska’s Black Birch Books, who’re getting a lot of online flack for announcing a drag story time in June. But despite a slew of negative, and sometimes threatening, comments and reviews, Black Birch owner Taylor Jordan is going on with the show. As she told... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-05-04 15:21:17 UTC ]
Not long after its drag queen story hours attracted protests, Riverside's Cellar Door Bookstore got evicted. But at this oasis of inclusion, the show will go on Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2023-05-04 13:00:17 UTC ]
Your library and bookstore hauls will be looking good in these new bookish tote bags. - Kelly Jensen Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2023-05-01 10:31:00 UTC ]
Across the country this weekend, independent bookstores once again celebrated Independent Bookstore Day, this year on April 29. Some bookselling scenes began the lead-up to the celebration even earlier, with "passport" promotions that offered customers discounts after visiting a certain number... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-05-01 04:00:00 UTC ]
This weekend marks the 10th anniversary of Independent Bookstore Day, the one-day book party held all across the country on the last Saturday in April every year to celebrate indie bookstores large and small. There’s no better time to show your local indie a little love—preferably by going to... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-04-28 13:04:40 UTC ]
“I have only the vaguest understanding of what TikTok is,” Patchett insists. And yet she and her bookstore, Parnassus Books, have become microcelebrities on the app thanks to the shop's savvy marketing manager, Sarah Arnold. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-04-28 04:00:00 UTC ]
Find out what cities across the U.S. are doing to celebrate Independent Bookstore Day 2023 on April 29th and get in on the fun! Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2023-04-24 10:38:00 UTC ]
With all the challenges that the book publishing industry currently faces, what will the future bookstore look like? Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2023-04-19 10:35:00 UTC ]
We talk with Annie Carl, founder of the Neverending Bookshop in Edmonds, Wash., a community bookstore that focuses on genre titles and children’s and YA. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-04-14 04:00:00 UTC ]