Barnes & Noble finally has a direct answer to Amazon's purchase of Audible. The bookseller has launched a B&N Audiobooks service in the US that lets you either buy recordings or pay $15 per month for a subscription that offers one recurring monthly credit. You'll have access to more than... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2022-04-07 16:21:47 UTC ]
Book Reviews Photo by Yousef Espanioly on Unsplash Fahredin Shehu writes of Gili Haimovich’s Promised Lands (Finishing Line Press, 2020), “This book communicates globally giving more than a single book of poems may offer. There is her origin and... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2022-03-09 21:17:53 UTC ]
Book Reviews Photo by Dominik Scythe / Unsplash A new book by a Nobel laureate and Booker award-winning author always brings with it a sense of trepidation. Will the new novel live up to the already established high expectations? Klara and the... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2022-03-01 21:50:34 UTC ]
Essay “Literature was a vast minefield occupied by enemies,” Roberto Bolaño, who enjoyed accruing enemies in the pantheon of Latin American letters, writes in the short story “Meeting with Enrique Lihn” (New Yorker, December 22, 2008): except for a few... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2022-02-28 21:05:10 UTC ]
News and Events Laura and Bunmi celebrate 41 books by Black authors. From Black joy to history to empowerment, the books on this list provide affirming messages for children and young adults with a special shout-out to NSK Neustadt Prize finalist Jason... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2022-02-24 19:13:40 UTC ]
Anti-racism activist and co-founder of New Beacon Books, Britain’s first specialist black bookshop and publishing companyThe veteran activist Sarah White, who has died aged 80, was for more than half a century a stalwart of initiatives dedicated to anti-colonialism, anti-racism and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2022-02-16 19:10:04 UTC ]
From reads about lexicographers and bookshop employees to librarians, these books about books, including The Sentence, are for serious bibliophiles only. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2022-01-21 11:36:00 UTC ]
More than 100 writers, artists, comedians and musicians will voice James Joyce’s seminal novel in celebration of its publication a century agoOne hundred years ago, in February 1922, Sylvia Beach, owner of the Paris bookshop Shakespeare and Company, published James Joyce’s Ulysses, in full, for... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2022-01-20 09:30:55 UTC ]
The number of independent bookshops in the UK and Ireland has grown for the fifth consecutive year despite challenges brought by the pandemic, the Booksellers Association says. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-07 22:34:12 UTC ]
The UK's first Black specialist bookshop is to shut its doors and move entirely online, as financial constraints jeopardise its future. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-12-28 16:05:54 UTC ]
The Margate Bookshop has collected almost £3,000 to buy books for local schoolchildren with plans to run the fundraiser as an ongoing scheme alongside other independent bookstores, potentially as part of a charity. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-12-23 07:48:13 UTC ]
Newham Bookshop is giving over a thousand books to children and communities in need this Christmas. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2021-12-21 06:12:46 UTC ]
An independent Somerset bookshop is being forced to close for good after Storm Arwen damaged the roof. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-12-20 01:26:46 UTC ]
Now in its second year, the publisher-owned Fraktura Bookshop serves as a hub of literary events and trusted recommendations in Zagreb. The post Croatian Publisher Fraktura and Its Bookshop: ‘To Present Quality Books’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2021-12-13 07:33:12 UTC ]
Alongside Richard Osman and JK Rowling, figures show huge successes for relative unknowns Ellery Adams and Brenda ChapmanThe UK’s library users are widely seen as a traditional bunch when it comes to choosing their next read, but while Richard Osman might have topped the list of the year’s... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-12-08 16:34:37 UTC ]
It might seem odd for a magazine called The Bookseller to have a dedicated issue for “booksellers”, but this week’s issue is a dedicated one for, well, booksellers, including our now-annual listing of the Bookshop Heroes, those purveyors of the written word who, when push came to shove in 2021,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-12-03 15:21:51 UTC ]
Black bookshop owners are finding that their efforts are paying off by sharing stories and bringing communities closer together through their local store. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-12-03 08:27:39 UTC ]
Twenty-three people have been included in The Bookseller's Bookshop Heroes class of 2021, a list of some of the best individual booksellers in the UK and Ireland. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-12-03 04:23:58 UTC ]
Will Smith has partnered with Black-owned bookshops and artists of colour across the UK and America to celebrate his upcoming memoir Will (Century), with Sevenoaks Bookshop featuring an artist’s display. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-11-11 02:48:04 UTC ]
Following the acclaimed author’s decision not to have Beautiful World, Where Are You translated by an Israeli publisher, two major retailers have removed her work from their shelvesBooks by Sally Rooney will no longer be sold in two Israeli bookshop chains, after the acclaimed writer’s decision... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-11-05 16:14:29 UTC ]