In FBI documents recently acquired by Unicorn Riot, a left-leaning independent media outlet, Chicago’s worker-owned Pilsen Community Books was said to be a meeting place for “anarchist violent extremists, or ‘AVEs,’ environmental violent extremists, or ‘EVEs’ and pro-abortion extremists.” As... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-03-15 16:14:24 UTC ]
After more than 6 years in business, co-owner Jessica Stockton-Bagnulo announced that the location will permanently close on May 14, 2023. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-03-14 04:00:00 UTC ]
One day, the friends have had enough with their husbands, their jobs, their lives, and decide to make a break for it. They grip hands, stuff their weapons* into the glove box, and… open a bookstore together. It’s a thing. “Over a drink in the pub one evening, we started to sketch out what our […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-03-08 14:08:31 UTC ]
Attention book lovers yearning to get out of Dodge: a down-on-its-luck bookstore in the Welsh mining town of Blaenavon (population 6,055) is headed to (online) auction next week, with bidding to open at the low low price of £72,000. Sure, it needs some work. But it comes with all the books, and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-03-01 15:27:18 UTC ]
After Lonesome Dove author Larry McMurtry died in 2021, his bookstore in Archer City, Texas, was turned over to the long-term store manager, Khristal Merklin. But as CNN reports, in November 2022, the deed was snapped up by Fixer Upper’s Chip Gaines. Will Gaines tear out the bookshelves and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-02-23 14:27:50 UTC ]
Andy Hunter, Bookshop.org CEO, told 'PW' that the online retailer is developing an e-book platform for indie bookstores from scratch, and will launch it in beta late this year. In addition, the company is publishing its first book, a collection by Lydia Davis, who did not want her book available... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-02-23 05:00:00 UTC ]
From big-box stores and schools to banks and gymnasiums, here are some old buildings that were turned into libraries (and bookstores). Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2023-02-20 11:38:00 UTC ]
Last year's bookstore sales increased to prepandemic levels, according to preliminary estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-02-17 05:00:00 UTC ]
Bookstore sales finished just under $9 billion in 2022, 6.2% higher than 2021 and 0.7% above 2019, the last year bookstores had a normal sales pattern before business was disrupted by the pandemic. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-02-15 05:00:00 UTC ]
When publishers Rare Bird and Unnamed Press moved into Highland Park, North Figueroa Bookshop soon followed, putting down roots in a bookstore-starved neighbohood. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2023-02-14 14:00:08 UTC ]
Russell Books in a third-generation family bookstore in Victoria, BC. On Wednesday, $55,000 in antiquarian books were stolen in a break-in. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2023-02-10 15:03:28 UTC ]
IndieBound.org, the ABA's consumer-facing online bookselling and marketing platform, will switch to using Bookshop.org links to handle sales and fulfillment beginning March 1. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-02-06 05:00:00 UTC ]
This year's American Booksellers will open on February 20 in Seattle with a range of bookstore tours introducing booksellers to an assortment of the city’s independent shops. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-02-03 05:00:00 UTC ]
Authors, booksellers, publishers, distributors, and others with ties to the book industry are invited to nominate their favorite bookstores and sales representatives for PW's annual Bookstore and Sales Rep of the Year Awards. Deadline for submissions is March 1. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-02-02 05:00:00 UTC ]
Bookstore sales inched up 0.5% in November over a year ago, to $668 million, compared to $665 million in November 2021. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-01-18 05:00:00 UTC ]
Bad holiday weather put a damper on what was the most normal year for independent booksellers since 2019. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-01-13 05:00:00 UTC ]
After years of store closings, Barnes & Noble is making a comeback with 30 new stores planned for 2023—and a new image. Branded is a weekly column devoted to the intersection of marketing, business, design, and culture.Read Full Story Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2023-01-13 04:30:00 UTC ]
An independent book shop in Wiltshire, England has become an internet hit after its creative window display of the Duke of Sussex's memoir. Continue reading >> [ Source: HuffPost | 2023-01-10 19:17:34 UTC ]
Remember Ray’s Occult Books, the rundown Manhattan bookstore opened by an unmoored Ray Stantz between Ghostbusters I and II following the city of New York serving him and his fellow ghostbusters with a judicial restraining order for the property damage incurred during their city-saving battle... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-01-09 16:53:03 UTC ]
With its bookstore on the ground floor and its library upstairs, India's Trilogy serves a loyal following: 'Getting books is our only headache.' The post Mumbai’s Bookstore and Library Trilogy: An Eighth Anniversary appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2023-01-09 13:28:28 UTC ]