Avon Books has sailed off with The Lighthouse, a “terrifyingly gripping” novel from author and bookseller Fran Dorricott, in a two-book deal. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-02-02 20:55:30 UTC ]
Anne Irish, a leading figure in children's bookselling in America, died on January 26 at age 78; she was among a cadre of women who opened and purchased bookstores in the 1970s and 1980s. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-02-02 05:00:00 UTC ]
Greene & Heaton rights director Kate Rizzo talks to The Bookseller about her role. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-29 10:34:09 UTC ]
A bookseller in Wetherby, West Yorkshire, has launched a crowdfund to donate books to children who receive free school meals. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-28 17:56:42 UTC ]
How one bookseller found herself idiotsplaining a certain bookstore bathroom predicament to the legendary musician Lou Reed. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2021-01-25 11:34:00 UTC ]
Pan Macmillan's Lucy Jones give The Bookseller an insight into her role as UK sales key account executive. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-18 02:02:49 UTC ]
The bookseller has hired Emily Meehan as publisher and chief creative officer of Sterling Publishing in what it called part of a relaunch of its publishing division. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-01-15 05:00:00 UTC ]
THE FOLLOWING EXCERPT is the opening section from chapter three of my book in progress, Unpacking My Father’s Bookstore, a memoir and critical study about growing up in my father’s Jewish bookstore. As Harelick and Roth Books and then J. Roth / Bookseller of Fine & Scholarly Judaica, the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2021-01-06 16:00:43 UTC ]
Blackwell's is the latest bookseller to announce it has closed its stores during the new lockdown and will not be offering click and collect, with the exception of its Oxford branch. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-06 09:24:14 UTC ]
Latham, a bookseller for 35 years, has put together a heady mix of history, philosophy, anecdotes and entertaining factsWhat most people know about the American librarian Melvil Dewey is his phenomenal classification technique, the Dewey decimal system, which is still used in 135 countries. Less... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-12-19 09:00:45 UTC ]
A non-fiction work about fungi and books with local interest are among the top-selling titles for indies ahead of Christmas, The Bookseller has been told. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-12-17 16:31:47 UTC ]
When lockdown came in March, many small presses feared they would go out of business. But then came an outpouring of support from the publicThe best books from indie publishers in 2020Six months ago, independent publishers Jacaranda and Knights Of were warning publicly that their income had... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-12-16 08:00:30 UTC ]
The Booksellers Association and Bookshop.org have responded to criticism following the launch of the online website in the UK in November. The criticism, which is focused on how effective the website will be at supporting independent bookshops and the BA's role in facilitating the launch, came... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-12-04 19:10:54 UTC ]
The Bookseller's 12th annual list of the industry's most influential people reveals a spate of pandemic heroes. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-12-03 23:15:34 UTC ]
Missing the recommendations of your favorite independent booksellers? Let a bookseller choose your next read through these subscription boxes. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-12-02 11:38:00 UTC ]
BookExpo, the largest bookseller trade show in the U.S., and its consumer-facing sibling BookCon have been indefinitely canceled because of the pandemic. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2020-12-01 20:30:11 UTC ]
The debut novel from former Daunt Books bookseller Ben Hinshaw will be published by Viking in spring 2022. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-25 14:18:40 UTC ]
Pantomime misanthropy is tempered with bursts of sweetness in the secondhand bookseller’s latest dispatches from WigtownThere’s a moment in the first season of the short-lived but influential sitcom Black Books in which an elderly customer appears with a box of attractive old editions of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-11-11 09:00:33 UTC ]
With most of the British Isles going back into lockdown over the past few weeks, The Bookseller is inviting people from across the trade to share their thoughts and experiences. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-09 01:38:36 UTC ]
As I wrote back in March, the enforced closing of bookshop doors is a terrible story for the editor of The Bookseller to report: it’s a gut-punch, and if you were on social media last Saturday at around 6.30 p.m.—when the Prime Minister announced the decision to shut non-essential retail in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-05 23:57:12 UTC ]