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Unionized Bookstore Workers Hold Pre-Holiday Rally at B&N Flagship

The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union organized a rally outside the Barnes & Noble flagship store in New York City’s Union Square on November 14 in an effort to push the company into resolving disagreement on wages and reaching a contract with workers by the end of the year. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-11-15 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Black Garnet Books in St. Paul Finds a Buyer

Minnesota's first Black woman–owned indie bookstore has changed hands five months after owner Dionne Sims announced that she intended to sell. The new owner—a self-described artist, academic, and an activist—will identify herself at an open house event at the store next week. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-11-14 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Profits, Sales Up at WH Smith in Fiscal 2024

North America, especially U.S. airport stores, is becoming a major growth engine for the U.K.-based bookstore chain. Sales in North America rose 9% in fiscal 2024, to £401 million. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-11-14 05:00:00 UTC ]
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15 Bone-Chilling New Horror Books for Halloween

How does a bookstore know it's almost Halloween? When the horror shelves are a ghost town. Here are a handful of terrifying new titles you should bring home to haunt you this All Hallow’s Eve. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-10-29 04:00:00 UTC ]
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My Mama Told Me You Better Shop Around: 5 Great Romances Set in Bookstores

To celebrate the news that there is another romance bookstore opening—Friends to Lovers in Alexandria, VA—I have a list of ... Continue reading at 'Book Riot'

[ Book Riot | 2024-10-28 11:30:00 UTC ]
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Have you purchased a weirdly low-quality paperback book lately? This may be why.

I work as the bookstore manager for a bookstore in the Hudson Valley and one of the things that means is that I handle not only the ordering of most of our books, but the unboxing of them as well. I get to put hands (or at least eyes) on basically every book that comes […] Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

[ Literrary Hub | 2024-10-24 14:25:11 UTC ]
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This Bookstore Historian Sees Bookselling as Activism

In The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore, history professor Evan Friss explores how bookstores have shaped reading, publishing, politics, and community, beginning in the 18th century. I talked with Friss about the value of indie bookstores, the bygone dominance of Barnes & Noble,... Continue reading at 'The Millions'

[ The Millions | 2024-10-22 12:00:00 UTC ]
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The best Bluetooth trackers for 2024

If you find your keys tend to go missing just as you need to leave the house (and particularly when you’re already late), Bluetooth tracker can help. Attach these handy fobs to your keys, wallet, jacket, purse, bag or whatever else you need to get going. Some trackers even rely on vast networks... Continue reading at 'Engadget'

[ Engadget | 2024-10-22 09:00:48 UTC ]
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Lucy Yu Is Redefining What A Bookstore Can Be

Yu & Me Books, located in the heart of Manhattan's Chinatown, has become a literary haven for immigrant authors and writers of color. Continue reading at 'HuffPost'

[ HuffPost | 2024-10-21 15:07:34 UTC ]
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Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for October 20, 2024

A Guide to Bookstore Customers, Award-Winning Fantasy, MId-Century Queer Romance, and More in Today's Best Book Deals Continue reading at 'Book Riot'

[ Book Riot | 2024-10-20 12:00:00 UTC ]
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PW Star Watch 2024 Finalist: Nicole Lintemuth

The owner of the bookstore Bettie’s Pages in Lowell, Mich., is “an outspokenly progressive voice running a small business successfully in a conservative small town” and a tireless advocate for the freedom to read. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-10-10 04:00:00 UTC ]
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La Revo Books Is the Midwest Independent Booksellers Association's 2024 Bookstore of the Year

Two sisters, Barbara Cerda and Valeria Cerda, the co-owners of La Revo Books, a pop-up bookstore in Milwaukee, were named MIBA's booksellers of the year for 202. The two founded La Revo in 2021 to sell Spanish-language literature. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-10-07 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for September 27, 2024

American myths and monsters, goddesses in Greek myth, a bookstore stuck in the past, and more of today's best book deals Continue reading at 'Book Riot'

[ Book Riot | 2024-09-27 15:11:57 UTC ]
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Women & Children First Named Inaugural Great Lakes Bookstore of the Year

The feminist bookstore, founded in 1979, has been named the Great Lakes Bookstore of the Year by the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association. It is the inaugural recipient of the award. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-09-27 04:00:00 UTC ]
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9 Novels Set in the ’90s

Plus the second annual Banned Wagon tour, books about books, gifts for indie bookstore lovers, and more today on Book Riot. Continue reading at 'Book Riot'

[ Book Riot | 2024-09-23 13:45:00 UTC ]
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Between the Lines: What Is Missing in the Diversity in Publishing Discourse

On Saturdays in late ’90s, my father, a taxi driver, would pool his tips for the week and take me, a child too precocious for his own good, to a local bookstore in search of my next read. Together, we silently wandered the store, picking up paperbacks and inspecting their pages. On shelves that... Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

[ Literrary Hub | 2024-09-17 08:55:21 UTC ]
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Richard Charkin in France: What’s in a Name?

A sweetly situated bookstore and its bookseller in France leads Richard Charkin to speculate on job titles in publishing. The post Richard Charkin in France: What’s in a Name? appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at 'Publishing Perspectives'

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2024-08-30 19:45:11 UTC ]
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August’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

Evan Friss’ The Bookshop, Katherine Bucknell’s Christopher Isherwood: Inside Out, and Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde all feature among the best reviewed books of the month. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s home for book reviews. * 1. The... Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

[ Literrary Hub | 2024-08-30 08:56:41 UTC ]
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A chapter ends as a Barnes & Noble heiress takes a loss on her Chelsea penthouse

The story of the sale of a bookstore heiress’s penthouse seems to have ended on a bittersweet note.Stephanie Riggio Bulger, whose father, Len Riggio, is the former chairman of the Barnes & Noble retail chain, has finally found a taker for her four-bedroom duplex condo in Chelsea after two... Continue reading at 'Crains New York'

[ Crains New York | 2024-08-22 15:41:31 UTC ]
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Lit Hub Daily: August 21, 2024

“Although Nazis were more famous for burning books, they also sold them.” Evan Friss on when the Nazis opened a propaganda bookstore in Los Angeles. | Lit Hub Bookstores Get ready for the literary film and TV you need to watch this fall. | Lit Hub Film “He was not one of those people who […] Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

[ Literrary Hub | 2024-08-21 10:30:24 UTC ]
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