The plight of independent bookstores during the coronavirus pandemic has brought an outpouring of public support—but, along with it, an often-overwhelming deluge of messaging about whom to support and how. A new app, Save Your Bookstore, is trying to pull more of it together in one place. Save... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-04-09 16:59:54 UTC ]
James Patterson has a long history of helping independent bookstores. In in 2014, he donated $1 million to indie bookstores, and staring in 2015, his Holiday Bonus program has given payments between $500 and $5,000 to bookstore employees each year. Now, as bookstores struggle to keep afloat... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-04-03 14:23:07 UTC ]
Save Your Bookstore points you to the best way to get cash to shuttered booksellers near you. As COVID-19 has forced small bookstores to close, many are wondering how they’ll survive—though a surge in support from communities placing online orders is helping. A new app is designed to let you... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2020-04-01 14:00:29 UTC ]
Sixteen-year-old Porter Square Books is the first New England bookstore in more than a decade to receive this honor and the second bookstore in Cambridge, Mass. Texan Bob Barnett, a sales representative for 25 years, was named Rep of the Year. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-04-01 04:00:00 UTC ]
Starting this week, Washington D.C.’s Kramerbooks & Afterwords Cafe is using Postmates, an app largely used for food delivery, to get books in the hands of readers in the D.C. area. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-04-01 04:00:00 UTC ]
Bookshop.org has reached a new milestone in generating revenue for independent bookstores. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-03-31 20:01:01 UTC ]
Indigo Books and Music, Canada's dominant bookstore chain, closed all of its 199 retail locations on March 18. On Friday, March 27, the company laid off 5,200 of 7,000 total employees. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-03-31 04:00:00 UTC ]
Simon & Schuster has launched a company-wide effort to support the newly established independent bookseller–focused online bookstore Bookshop.org and its affiliate network of independent booksellers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-03-31 04:00:00 UTC ]
Indie booksellers in New England and in California will be getting additional assistance from their regional bookstore associations, including management counselling, tech support, and promotional opportunities. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-03-30 04:00:00 UTC ]
Portland's beloved indie bookstore Powell's Books rehired more than 100 employees after seeing a surge in online orders. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2020-03-29 18:12:16 UTC ]
Regional independent booksellers associations are working to support their members with information, digital resources, virtual events, promotions, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-03-27 04:00:00 UTC ]
On this episode of Sheltering, Maris Kreizman talks to Kate Elizabeth Russell about her recent novel, My Dark Vanessa. Kate shares the things that are helping to get through this time of isolation: Fiona Apple, the game Animal Crossing, and eating “like she’s at a sleepover.” Kate’s local... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-03-25 19:00:22 UTC ]
We’ve already brought your attention to the ways you can help bookstores (and bookstore workers) during the coronavirus pandemic, and here’s another one: a collective of recently laid-off booksellers has started an online storefront at Bookshop.org (in case you missed it, Bookshop is the new... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-03-25 15:14:23 UTC ]
More than a dozen out-of-work booksellers in New York City have launched The Bookstore at the End of the World on Bookshop.org, to "make money doing what they do best." Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-03-25 04:00:00 UTC ]
Chicago authors are spotlighting the unique plight of two local indies that both closed to walk-in traffic on March 16: one bookstore that was only officially open for one day, and another that had changed ownership two weeks earlier. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-03-25 04:00:00 UTC ]
Welcome to episode one of The Antibody Reading Series, a weekly reading and Q and A hosted by Brian Gresko. Tonight’s guests are Kendra Allen, Maisy Card, and Hilary Leichter. You can buy their books from The Antibody‘s local indie, Greenlight Bookstore or from Bookshop.org: Kendra Allen, When... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-03-24 23:55:25 UTC ]
THESE TIMES: Francesca Marciano on the new silences filling the streets of Rome · Want to help a bookstore? Buy a gift card · And don’t forget bookstore workers! | Lit Hub Coronavirus Coverage “We look for evidence of race not because it mattered to them but because it matters now.” Katy Simpson... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-03-24 10:30:38 UTC ]
Snow was falling as Genie turned right on C Street and headed downtown to the bookstore with Wins. The city was quiet. Most people had already left work for the start of the holiday weekend. The Salvation Army had just concluded its Good Friday worship. Volunteers at the Third Avenue Elks Club... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-03-24 08:48:38 UTC ]
The Strand bookstore confirmed Sunday that 188 employees, the majority of the bookstore’s staff, have been let go in the wake of the Covid-19 outbreak. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-03-22 04:00:00 UTC ]
On the afternoon of Wednesday, March 18, 2020 I stood in an empty bookstore and cried. A friend had just sent a congratulatory text with a picture from the April issue of Alta Magazine. My wife and I were interviewed a few months ago for a profile of Point Reyes Books, the bookstore we’ve owned […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-03-20 08:49:38 UTC ]