To mark its second anniversary, Bookshop.org, has started what it is calling the Golden Bookmark Sweepstakes, which will award one person $600 in Bookshop.org gift cards each year for life, as well as a one-time prize of $500 to donate to a bookstore of their choice. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-01-28 05:00:00 UTC ]
Kerri Maher’s novel “The Paris Bookseller” celebrates the life of American Sylvia Beach, a bookstore owner who saw promise in James Joyce’s “Ulysses.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2022-01-11 20:01:10 UTC ]
Danny Caine, the owner of the Raven Book Store in Lawrence, Kans., has sold a 49% stake in the 35-year-old bookstore to a group of seven employees. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-01-04 05:00:00 UTC ]
Regardless of how 2021 went for you, 2022 is another chance for all of us to make the new year better than those that came before it. We set New Year’s resolutions with the best of intentions, but it’s no wonder that so many people fail after just a few weeks – old habits die hard. Just as it’s... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2022-01-01 14:34:42 UTC ]
Independent book shop McNally Jackson staged a public protest with a melodic twist in New York this week, reworking classic seasonal songs and sending carolers to perform in front of the Amazon four-star store in the SoHo neighborhood. The newly written lyrics, from agency DCX Growth... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2021-12-23 20:20:41 UTC ]
DCist reports that workers at DC’s indie bookstore Politics and Prose have decided to unionize, joining a growing list of bookstores (and other workplaces) that have unionized this year. If they do unionize, they’ll become the only bookstore in DC with a unionized workforce. But Politics and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-12-17 16:47:07 UTC ]
Zenith Bookstore sells both new and used books, and has become a community hub in a part of the city where residents never expected to have a bookstore. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-12-03 05:00:00 UTC ]
In the early 2010s I lived near a bookstore called KAYO Books, in an area of San Francisco sometimes called Tenderloin Heights. They stocked an incredible array of pulp and genre fiction: two dizzying floors of detective fiction, mysteries, westerns, schlocky movie and TV tie-ins, and erotica.... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-11-24 09:55:50 UTC ]
In her essay collection “These Precious Days,” the novelist and bookstore owner explores friendship, marriage and mortality. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-11-19 15:41:34 UTC ]
Founded in October 2009 by Rebecca Fitting and Jessica Stockton Bagnulo, Greenlight Bookstore is an independent bookstore in Brooklyn, New York. Combining the best traditions of the neighborhood bookstore with carefully curated, community-minded events, Greenlight has earned a reputation as a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-11-11 09:49:39 UTC ]
Rebecca Fitting, co-owner of Brooklyn’s Greenlight Bookstore, is leaving the store she cofounded with Jessica Stockton-Bagnulo 12 years ago, and has sold her stake in the business to Stockton-Bagnulo. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-10-29 04:00:00 UTC ]
Here are the best bookish things that happened this week, from library chickens to literacy funding and, of course, WonTon the bookstore cat. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2021-10-22 10:42:00 UTC ]
Anyone who has worked in a bookstore knows only too well that moment when a customer approaches by saying, “So I don’t remember the title, or the author, but—.” And we’ve all been on the other side of the counter, trying to pinpoint something we can’t quite describe at a bookstore (“It’s a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-10-21 08:55:42 UTC ]
A bookstore visit to address supply chain concerns and share top picks for the season. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-10-20 14:00:00 UTC ]
The following bookstore profiles are from Bibliophile: Diverse Spines, by Jamise Harper and Jane Mount. * LOYALTY BOOKSTORE Silver Spring, Maryland, USA / Washington, DC, USA Instagram: @loyaltybooks What began as a pop-up shop has since become one of the most treasured bookstores in the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-10-19 08:55:55 UTC ]
Pittsburgh’s White Whale Bookstore celebrated its five-year anniversary on October 15 with something special: the grand opening of its newly expanded space. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-10-19 04:00:00 UTC ]
Though Covid-19 isn't going anywhere and challenges remain, new independent bookstores are opening up and doing well. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-10-15 04:00:00 UTC ]
“Silverview” features a young bookstore owner in an English seaside town, caught up in an investigation involving two cunning spymasters. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-10-11 09:00:03 UTC ]
For more than 20 years, I worked at the Booksmith, an independent bookstore located in the Haight Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco. For half that time, I ran the events program. I worked with publishers in selecting authors, creating a monthly schedule, and banging the drum to make sure... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-09-24 08:50:35 UTC ]
Aaliya's Books, a much-loved Beirut bookstore named for a character in a Rabih Alameddine novel, has lost the battle to stay open—for now. The post Aaliya’s Books Closes Amid Beirut’s Economic and Political Crisis appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2021-09-02 09:25:02 UTC ]