The owner of the Strand Bookstore plans to sue the city to fight a landmark designation applied to the property over the owner's opposition. An attorney for store owner Nancy Bass Wyden told... To view the full story, click the title link. Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2019-09-24 13:47:21 UTC ]
New Barnes & Noble CEO James Daunt gets to work on rejuvenating America’s largest bookstore retailer. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-09-20 04:00:00 UTC ]
Visiting an author’s book launch at a colleague’s bookstore is a delightful adventure. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-09-18 12:00:48 UTC ]
Well, today is the day you’ve all been waiting for: Margaret Atwood’s hotly hyped, closely guarded, imperfectly embargoed, Booker-shortlisted The Testaments is on the bookstore shelves. For the superfans among you, we’ve collected a selection of photographs of Atwood below, from childhood to the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-09-10 08:49:55 UTC ]
Citing 37 percent of revenue from frontlist titles, 63 bookstore companies with 80 locations respond to BookNet Canada’s new report. By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson Non-Book Merchandise: 16 Percent of Revenue or partisans of print and brick-and-mortar bookstores, the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2019-09-09 20:54:40 UTC ]
Citing 37 percent of revenue from frontlist titles, 63 bookstore companies with 80 locations respond to BookNet Canada's new report. The post BookNet Canada’s First ‘State of Independent Bookselling’ Report: Print Revenue up appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2019-09-09 20:54:40 UTC ]
Back in May, I signed an embargo agreement on behalf of my bookstore stating that I would “ensure that [The Testaments by Margaret Atwood] is stored in a monitored and locked, secured area and not placed on the selling floor prior to the on-sale date.” The idea behind such agreements is that... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2019-09-06 11:00:49 UTC ]
An awesome daily roundup of the most interesting bookish links from around the web. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2019-09-05 10:30:57 UTC ]
Christian Product Expo, presented by the Munce Marketing Group and the Christian Retailer Association (CRA), brought nearly 800 bookstore owners and publishing representatives together in Murfreesboro, Tenn., from Aug. 25-27. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-08-28 04:00:00 UTC ]
At China's Asian Bookstore Forum in Xi'an, researchers cited a sharp shift, book sales moving quickly away from physical stores and over to online retail. The post Asian Bookstore Forum 2019: The Retail Context in China Today appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2019-08-23 05:30:19 UTC ]
A little additional advice to self-published authors on maintaining successful relationships with indie booksellers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-08-19 12:00:51 UTC ]
I own a 19-year-old copy of Vladimir Nabokov’s Invitation to a Beheading. I place its age from the barcode on its back, which states the name of the bookstore where I bought it: Borders.The one that used to sit on the ground floor of the World Trade Center, the one I’d been to multiple times […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-08-19 08:50:43 UTC ]
At a shop that at times functioned as a sanctuary after the Tree of Life shooting, the owner sees his job as “a moral obligation.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2019-08-18 09:00:09 UTC ]
For a second year, the Hay Festival works with a Dallas bookstore to stage a smaller event parallel to the Hay's Mexico festival at Querétaro. The post Hay ‘Forum’ Dallas Programming Announced for September appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2019-08-14 05:50:28 UTC ]
James Daunt fought Amazon and rescued the country’s biggest bookstore chain. Now comes Chapter 2. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2019-08-08 10:00:05 UTC ]
Punny cozy mystery titles have always been among the most fun on bookstore and library shelves. Here are twelve new cozies with puns to make you laugh. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2019-08-07 10:38:11 UTC ]
Enter to win a $100 gift card to spend at The Ripped Bodice, the only romance-exclusive bookstore in the United States! Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2019-08-01 10:31:56 UTC ]
Before it was an agency, Imprint Projects was a bookstore founded by art curators and exhibition programmers Adam Katz, Dina Pugh and David Kramer. The chops they honed in those positions working across culture and retail formed the roots of what’s now a full-service creative shop that... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2019-08-01 02:15:00 UTC ]
Tinged with love and sadness, Marjan Kamali’s new novel ‘The Stationery Shop’ is an ode to an Iran that no longer exists. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2019-07-28 22:04:19 UTC ]
Tinged with love and sadness, Marjan Kamali’s new novel ‘The Stationery Shop’ is an ode to an Iran that no longer exists. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2019-07-28 22:04:19 UTC ]