An Asian American-owned bookstore in Manhattan’s Chinatown left gutted by a July fourth fire is getting flooded with support from the community, writers and celebrities Continue reading >> [ Source: ABC News | 2023-07-07 18:01:56 UTC ]
Yu and Me Books opened in December 2021 on Mulberry Street in Manhattan’s Chinatown, and was named for owner Lucy Yu’s mother. It was the first Asian-American woman-owned bookstore on the island. Following a July 4, 2023, fire in a neighboring residential unit, the store has lost most of its... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-07-07 15:59:28 UTC ]
The woman and Asian American–owned bookstore, in the Chinatown neighborhood in Manhattan, will require a total renovation over the next year due to a fire in a residential unit above its premises. It topped its goal of $150,000 overnight. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-07-07 04:00:00 UTC ]
Tattered Cover has named Brad Dempsey interim CEO of the Denver bookstore chain, replacing CFO Margie Keenan, who served as interim CEO after former CEO and co-owner Kwame Spearman left in April to start a political career. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-07-06 04:00:00 UTC ]
NASCAR's Chicago street race during the holiday weekend shut down many businesses along the route, including Exile in Bookville, which sustained thousands of dollars in losses. Some of that loss was alleviated by a spike in online orders by customers wanting to support the store. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-07-05 04:00:00 UTC ]
A new queer indie bookstore is splitting profits with LGBTQ authors and spreading queer joy and literacy with a rainbow book bus. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2023-06-20 10:40:00 UTC ]
The third Barnes & Noble store to unionize, the bookstore workers voted 97% in favor of joining the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, citing safety issues, substandard pay and lack of workplace structure. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-06-08 04:00:00 UTC ]
Indigo Books & Music, Canada's dominant bookstore chain, announced founder Heather Reisman will retire in August; simultaneously, four board members resigned with one citing a loss of confidence in the board and mistreatment. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-06-08 04:00:00 UTC ]
Today in good news, the American Booksellers Association announced that membership is at its highest level in 20 years. Per reporting by Hillel Italie at the Associated Press: The ABA added 173 members last year, and now has 2,185 bookstore businesses and 2,599 locations. Three years after the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-05-22 15:55:36 UTC ]
In a virtual awards show, 'PW' editorial director Jim Milliot named Midtown Scholar in Harrisburg, Pa., the Bookstore of the Year and PRH's Emily Bates the Sales Rep of the Year. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-05-22 04:00:00 UTC ]
Sara Hoerdeman, the American Academy of Pediatrics marketing manager for consumer products, didn’t just nominate Harvey’s Tales in Geneva, Ill., to be PW’s 2023 Bookstore of the Year: she wrote a 500-word love letter extolling the virtues of the five-year-old indie, located in an upscale suburb... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-05-12 04:00:00 UTC ]
Throughout 2023, the Midtown Scholar Bookstore is celebrating 20 years as a bricks-and-mortar destination in Harrisburg, Pa. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-05-12 04:00:00 UTC ]
“Even though every atom in my body told me opening a shop would be an economic failure, I’d hoped it would save us.” Kelly McMasters on starting a bookstore to save her marriage. | Lit Hub Memoir 21 new books out today: Shakespeare! Eurovision! Revenge! | The Hub This month’s Lit Hub Asks: 5... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-05-09 10:30:21 UTC ]
The first time I sliced open a box of books in my new bookshop, I breathed in deeply. The pulpy starch of the paper caught in the back of my throat, while the faint chemical sting of the new ink burned high in my nostrils. I imagined a world where this smell was a constant […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-05-09 08:53:39 UTC ]
The Internet is abuzz over a forthcoming nonfiction book, a 544-page memoir (including 40 full-color photographs) slated to be published by Flatiron on July 9th. Why? Because The Internet thinks it was probably written by Taylor Swift. It all started when the owner of indie bookshop Good... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-05-08 16:47:07 UTC ]
A 57-year-old “self-styled poet” (aren’t they all?) has spent $116,000 of his own money to build a bookstore in a mountaintop village. Oh, and it’s shaped like the number 7 and contains 7,000 books. No, this is not a parable. As Jiang Libo told the South China Morning Post: Before my bookshop... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-05-08 15:04:22 UTC ]
Forty years ago, my not-yet-gentrified neighborhood in Brooklyn had one bookstore, Mostly Books. When the owner retired, it became a video store (RIP Cousins). Then it was derelict, then it was councilman’s office, and now it’s (obviously) a real estate office. But in all those years, a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-05-08 15:00:19 UTC ]
The owner and operator of the Mysterious Bookshop in Lower Manhattan, the oldest bookstore in the U.S. specializing in mysteries and thrillers, said his duties running Mysterious Press don’t leave him with enough time to interact with customers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-05-05 04:00:00 UTC ]
Respect and support to Wasilla, Alaska’s Black Birch Books, who’re getting a lot of online flack for announcing a drag story time in June. But despite a slew of negative, and sometimes threatening, comments and reviews, Black Birch owner Taylor Jordan is going on with the show. As she told... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-05-04 15:21:17 UTC ]
Not long after its drag queen story hours attracted protests, Riverside's Cellar Door Bookstore got evicted. But at this oasis of inclusion, the show will go on Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2023-05-04 13:00:17 UTC ]