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 ]
Your library and bookstore hauls will be looking good in these new bookish tote bags. - Kelly Jensen Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2023-05-01 10:31:00 UTC ]
Detention of publisher Li Yanhe in China for ‘endangering national security’ has sent chills through island’s literary communityIn a bookstore near one of Taipei’s leading universities, Zeng Da-fu and his wife work quietly into the evening. Zeng has run this store for decades, tucked in a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-04-29 02:00:23 UTC ]
“I have only the vaguest understanding of what TikTok is,” Patchett insists. And yet she and her bookstore, Parnassus Books, have become microcelebrities on the app thanks to the shop's savvy marketing manager, Sarah Arnold. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-04-28 04:00:00 UTC ]
With all the challenges that the book publishing industry currently faces, what will the future bookstore look like? Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2023-04-19 10:35:00 UTC ]
The publishing party for my first book was held in the bookstore I used to work at. My book was piled on the table. People with flowers, people with cups of wine, people who didn’t understand Icelandic all filled the store. I felt like it was my birthday. Ten days earlier, I’d been awarded the […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-04-19 08:52:49 UTC ]
I first read Carl Sagan’s Contact and Cosmos in high school, when I was working at a bookstore that let us borrow any book we had at least two copies of on the shelves. I loved them then and was excited to revisit these books in the course of my research for The Possibility of […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-04-18 08:54:28 UTC ]
We talk with Annie Carl, founder of the Neverending Bookshop in Edmonds, Wash., a community bookstore that focuses on genre titles and children’s and YA. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-04-14 04:00:00 UTC ]
In December 2022, author Chelsea Banning had 37 people RSVP “yes” to her book event. On the day, only two showed up. In March 2023, Jamar Perry showed up to his 7 p.m. book event to find the bookstore empty, and figured he would give it another 40 minutes. Still, no one came. This week, […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-04-05 11:57:06 UTC ]