A year in the planning, California Bookstore Day proved to be a success for participating stores, all of which demonstrated significant sales increases. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
The owners of West London independent Kew Bookshop have launched a petition to stop the planned... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-04-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
On May 1 Collective Copies, a worker-owned print shop in Western Massachusetts’s Pioneer Valley, will hold the grand opening of its Off the Common Bookshop. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Twenty years ago, if someone had told Pete Mulvihill, Kevin Ryan, and Kevin Hunsanger that they would one day own Green Apple Books, the store where they then worked, all three of them would have been “gob-smacked”—much like their reaction last month when they were told that their San Francisco... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Random House's food blog and online cooking community, TasteBook, has added a new bookstore called The BookShop. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Washington's Petworth area, home to George Pelecanos's fictional Detective Strange, will get a bookstore in September. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bookstore sales fell 6.8% in February, to $791 million, compared to February 2013, according to preliminary estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin Random House UK has launched My Independent Bookshop - a consumer book recommendation... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-04-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Two businessmen have bought the freehold of Marlborough's only bookshop in order to keep it... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-04-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Just how well do cookbooks do at Avid Bookshop in Athens, Ga.? The bestselling book at Avid – period – is "Top Chef" judge Hugh Acheson’s James Beard Award–winning cookbook, "A New Turn in the South." Store owner Janet Geddis spoke to PW about her store's cookbook-themed events and the books her... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon is to open a bookstore selling physical books on the International Space Station (ISS).... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-04-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
The 47-year-old San Francisco store behind California Bookstore Day is this year's winner. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Andrew Weinstein, the new VP of Content Acquisition at ebook subscription service Scribd discusses the role of bookstores, territorial rights and content. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-03-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ever since Janet Geddis launched one of the first bookstore crowdfunding campaigns in March 2010 to raise money to open Avid Bookshop in Athens, Ga., Indiegogo and, to a lesser extent, Kickstarter, have become the go-to places for cash-strapped booksellers trying to open a bookstore, add a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bookstore sales fell 6.9% in January compared to a year ago, dropping to $1.75 billion, according to preliminary estimates released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Harlem’s La Casa Azul Bookstore has stepped up to help residents affected by the gas explosion that destroyed two buildings in East Harlem on Wednesday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Poland’s second-largest bookstore chain, Matras, is set to be sold. Potential buyers include book distributor FK Olejesiuk and a consortium of publishers, led by Prószyński. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Seeking sale synergies, Bookline.hu, Hungary's top online bookseller has merged with Libri, the country's largest bookstore chain. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Booksellers from the Midwest and the West Coast dominate this year's shortlist for the 22nd annual award. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
After the success of the Indies First movement this November, in which authors worked at independent bookstores, the newest event is called Storytime Day. Spokesperson Kate DiCamillo urges authors to read a story at their local bookstore. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]