From a Canadian bookshop opened by Alice Munro in the 1960s to one in the island of Santorini started by drunk Oxford students, some of the worlds most exotic booksellers feature in The Bookshop Book, published as part of a UK-wide Books are My Bag campaign to support the bookselling industry in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-10-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
More than 300 titles became available in bookstores today in the UK. Bookstore owners are hoping the huge amount of titles will get curious visitors into their shops. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-10-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Readers eager to support their local bookstores might want to consider paying to sponsor a bookshelf. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-10-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Through the Open Book Residency, members of the public are invited to come work in a bookstore in Wigtown, Scotland, for several weeks. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-10-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Former Borders bookseller Kate Layte is opening a 500 sq. ft. general bookstore, Papercuts, JP, in the Jamaica Plain section of the city in November. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hardback titles by the likes of John Cleese and Jacqueline Wilson go on sale in race for Christmas bestseller listsTim Walker is expecting queues outside his familys bookshops in Oakham and Stamford on Thursday. Other booksellers up and down the country will be hoping for a similar rush of eager... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-10-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
A Junkudo location in Tokyo is inviting six guests to sleep over at their store. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-10-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
A new bookstore has opened inside the French Embassy in New York promising to be a catalyst for a French-American dialogue of ideas. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-09-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
It has been a little more than two years since Praveen Madan, co-owner of Booksmith, the San Francisco bookstore, took over as CEO of Menlo Park, Calif.’s Kepler’s Books and Magazines, in an effort to keep the iconic but struggling store from closing. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
RoscoeBooks, a 1,419-square-foot full-service bookstore, will open its doors in Chicago’s north side in November. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
On Saturday, Albertine bookstore and reading room, with books in English and French, will open its doors across the street from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
More than £130,000 has been allocated to 73 independent bookshops in the UK and Ireland in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-09-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bookstore sales fell 5.1% to $707 million in July, according to data released by the U.S. Census Bureau. Sales were at $745 million in July 2013. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hannah Moushabeck, age 25, is the children's department director at Odyssey Bookshop, a children's book editor for Interlink Publishing Group, and co-chair of the New England Children's Booksellers Advisory Council. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Movies, movies, and more movies were the key to book sales for teens and younger readers this summer. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Richard Kemp has opened 3 independent UK bookstores and wants to help others open 1,000 more. Here are his top tips for getting started. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-09-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Apparently all customers believe the book they're looking for has a blue cover and some will tell you that if you haven't read every book in the store, 'you're not very good at your job.' Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-08-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Oakland store is moving downtown in early October and quadrupling its space. To help defray costs she just launched an Indiegogo campaign. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-08-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Books were flying off the shelves at two stores early Sunday morning, but not in the usual way. A magnitude 6.0 earthquake sent them tumbling. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-08-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Writer Kate Brittain has created a one-stop database of America's independent bookstores, Better Place to Buy Books. She estimates that there are over 2,300 indie bookstores in the USA. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-08-21 00:00:00 UTC ]