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 ]
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 ]