The 'Find Waldo Local' campaign, held nationwide for the month of July, had customers hunting for Waldo in independent bookstores and businesses. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-08-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pages of Hackney in East London will today hold what is being billed as London’s first ever... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Is there a future for independent bookstores in general and Kepler’s Books in particular? That was the question posed by Future Search leaders Sandra Janoff and Michael Pann-witz to nearly 80 booksellers, publishers, distributors, authors, and community supporters who gathered at the Oshman... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-08-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Booksellers will soon be asked to choose their top 10 “surprise Christmas hits” from... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
The embattled St. Mark's Bookshop has a new defender. Lucky Ant, a year-old, hyper-local crowd-funding platform, is helping the 35-year-old East Village literary landmark raise the money it needs to move to a cheaper location. The online campaign, at Luckyant.com, launched Wednesday at midnight,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2012-07-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Blackwell’s has returned a campus bookshop presence to Queens University Belfast after the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
As Independent Booksellers Week gets into full swing, the Booksellers Association has released... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Academic press Sage has launched an e-bookstore, part of its online social science platform Sage... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-06-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Guardian is launching an interactive map of the UK and Ireland’s bookshops in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
The University of Exeter and Blackwell's have launched what is being called a "different... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Booksellers must address their "toxic" real estate and band together to compete in an... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
An English-language bookshop in Paris is to close its doors in July after 30 years. The Village... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Broadway Books in Portland, Oregon, saved from shutting its doors when the owner's son tweeted a plea to help save it, is now celebrating its 20th birthday. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-05-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Pottermore ebook store sold £3m-worth of Harry Potter ebooks in its first month, the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Nothing has challenged bricks-and-mortar bookstores to reconsider their physical space and what they carry more than the recession and the rise of ebooks. Recently, two independents announced that they will reduce their space. Third Street Books in McMinnville, Ore., which expanded in 2006, is... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-04-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Google has told UK bookshops that it is shutting its reseller programme, and has invited the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Dutch investment company ProCures has bought all 16 branches of upmarket book chain Selexyz.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Google will end its Google eBooks reseller program which allowed independent bookstores to sell ebooks through Google's platform. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-04-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Google said the program, which allowed independent bookstores to sell ebooks through their Web sites, was not a success. Bookstores said it was a valuable platform that allowed them to give customers something they wanted. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2012-04-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
The nation's independent bookstores got another bit of bad news Thursday: Google Inc.is closing the books on them. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-04-06 00:00:00 UTC ]