Today's links include the continued rise in independent bookstores, a master bookseller on bookselling, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-05-24 19:41:49 UTC ]
In “Reading the Room,” Paul Yamazaki, the chief buyer for City Lights Booksellers, calls this “one of the richest and most rewarding times” to be a literature fan. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-05-23 09:00:58 UTC ]
The management of Chicago's Seminary Co-op and and 57th Street Books has voluntarily recognized a union formed by bookseller employees of the member-owned cooperative. SCBU IU 660 is a branch of the Industrial Workers of the World. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-05-21 04:00:00 UTC ]
The second day of Sharjah Bookseller Conference featured commentary on family-owned retail companies and technology. The post Sharjah’s Third Booksellers Conference: ‘Acumen and Dynamism’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2024-05-01 18:16:19 UTC ]
Seminary Co-op booksellers and friends have held a number of conversations with legendary bookseller Paul Yamazaki throughout the past two years, in the intoxicating stacks of City Lights, perambulating the streets of San Francisco, and over whiskey tumblers deep into the night. With Paul we’ve... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-04-19 08:59:44 UTC ]
The Ingram sales rep “represents a dizzying array of imprints” and is “a tireless partner in smoothing hitches in the supply chain,” according to one bookseller partner. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-04-17 04:00:00 UTC ]
Fortified by advice and tips from Ann Patchett and Emma Straub, her fellow authors-turned-indie-booksellers, the author of 'Fates and Furies' and 'Matrix' readies to open her new bookstore, the Lynx, in downtown Gainesville, Fla., this spring. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-03-18 04:00:00 UTC ]
A new plan by the iconic Denver bookseller sees a streamlined company emerging from bankruptcy as early as June and returning to profitability next year. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-03-11 04:00:00 UTC ]
The Bookseller Oral History Project, a program intended to document and preserve the history of bookselling in the U.S., has found a permanent home at the University of Iowa Libraries. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-03-05 05:00:00 UTC ]
I always imagined, that, given the choice, I would read my own audiobook. I had heard memoirs often sounded best in the author’s throat—something about the familiar tang of the hardship unspooled. But had I written a memoir? A bookseller acquaintance asked me that a year before the publication... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-02-22 09:54:39 UTC ]
The Bookseller Oral History Project aims to preserve the often-hidden history of bookselling in America. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-01-26 05:00:00 UTC ]
Womb House Books owner Jessica Ferri's carefully curated listings have turned her online storefront into the favorite bookseller of Emma Roberts, Natalie Portman, and thousands of Etsy customers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-01-26 05:00:00 UTC ]
Tamara Megrelishvili, founder of Georgian bookstore Prospero's talks about the impact of diminished tourism, war, and political unease. The post In Tbilisi: Bookseller Tamara Megrelishvili on Sales Trends appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2024-01-10 17:45:34 UTC ]
In addition to announcing changes to its executive committee, the Book Industry Charitable Foundation this week named three new board members: Christian publisher Chriscynethia Floyd, former Abrams CEO Michael Jacobs, and Vermont bookseller Emma Kaas. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-01-10 05:00:00 UTC ]
Barnes & Noble followed up sales increases in 2022 with more gains in 2023 and CEO James Daunt said the bookseller is "entering a period of significant growth." Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-01-10 05:00:00 UTC ]
My longtime girlfriend is a longtime bookseller. Her relationship with bookselling predates ours three times over. It is a surprisingly taxing career path—one that asks of the body, and of the mind. There are the bad days, where she brings home the classic bookseller gripes: failed hand-sells,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-01-05 09:56:55 UTC ]
Bookseller Katherine Morgan has founded her own online bookstore—all while working two gigs at Bookshop.org and Powell's City of Books. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-11-27 05:00:00 UTC ]
If there’s a book lover on your holiday list, consider yourself lucky. There’s a huge range of gifts you can give them — and you don’t even need to know what’s next up on their to-be-read list. I’m a former bookseller with an abiding fiction habit who now tests... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2023-11-16 16:00:47 UTC ]
I first heard of Willa Cather as a teenage bookseller in North Denver, at a new, used, rare, and antiquarian bookshop that had once been a mechanic’s garage. At the bookstore, there was an entire section of Cather’s famous works, which I had labeled meticulously with colored markers on scraps of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-11-14 10:00:45 UTC ]
The round-table workshops that proved highly successful in the Sharjah Bookseller Conference now are part of the Sharjah Publishers Conference. The post Sharjah Publishers Conference Introduces New Format appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2023-10-28 02:14:24 UTC ]