Even when shuttered by the coronavirus pandemic, libraries are coming up with creative ways to serve their communities. On March 16, the El Dorado County Library in California closed its doors to patrons after a state-wide stay-at-home order. But that hasn’t stopped the library, which serves... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2020-04-15 07:00:32 UTC ]
A large group of comic book creators will be using Twitter to auction books, art and more to benefit stores upended by the coronavirus pandemic. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-04-14 13:49:17 UTC ]
Italy, the country worst affected so far by the coronavirus pandemic in Europe, is allowing bookshops to reopen. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-04-13 17:18:11 UTC ]
The best-selling author and co-owner of Books Are Magic discusses how her store is weathering the crisis while supporting writers, staff, and other bookstores. For years, independent bookstores fought to stay in business in the face of big box stores and Amazon’s unstoppable growth. Now, they... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2020-04-10 10:30:03 UTC ]
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 ]
Bradford Literature Festival, originally scheduled for 26th June-5th July, has been cancelled amid the coronavirus pandemic. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-04-08 15:04:29 UTC ]
DK and Walker have unveiled new initiatives to support families, readers, authors and illustrators during the coronavirus pandemic. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-04-06 14:35:29 UTC ]
For publishing companies to survive a global crisis like the one we're in, Rich Antoniello's formula is 'brand, plus brains, plus balance sheet." He would know, having stewarded Complex through the 2008 financial crisis as CEO, the role he still holds now. But compared to that, the downturn... Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2020-03-31 04:00:00 UTC ]
Andersen Press has partnered with Seven Stories to provide weekly virtual story times free of charge throughout the coronavirus pandemic. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-27 00:51:01 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 ]
The Women's Prize for Fiction award ceremony has been postponed until September because of the coronavirus pandemic. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-25 08:46:16 UTC ]
Edinburgh-based wholsesaler Bookspeed has closed its business during the coronavirus pandemic, saying it is unable to protect its warehouse workers with social distancing measures. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-24 05:06:40 UTC ]
A coalition of African-American independent booksellers and publishers convened a national video conference call to survey the state of black books around the country in the wake of the new coronavirus pandemic. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-03-24 04:00:00 UTC ]
Binc, the Book Industry Charitable Foundation, has emerged as one of the few reliable sources of financial support for independent booksellers amid the coronavirus pandemic. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-03-24 04:00:00 UTC ]
The coronavirus pandemic has hit independent bookstores hard, with booksellers and other book workers now in need of emergency support. Here are some opportunities we’ve spotted to help out, but please let us know of any others and will add to the post. (Email [email protected].) The Book Industry... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-03-23 20:01:09 UTC ]
Amazon’s “buy" pre-order buttons have been returned for upcoming titles, after they were removed from not-yet-published books for two days to prioritise stocking other high-demand items during the coronavirus pandemic. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-23 00:36:21 UTC ]
THESE TIMES: Lit Hub editor Jonny Diamond on literary community in a time of global pandemic • Ysabelle Cheung on trying to write in Hong Kong during the rise of the novel coronavirus • Italian editor Sara Reggiani on life in lock-down • How to support your local bookstores during the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-03-21 11:30:33 UTC ]
Bookshop.org, an alternative to Amazon that shares proceeds from book sales with independent bookstores, will give more money to those stores in response to the coronavirus pandemic and its impact on small businesses. Bookshop announced today that it would increase bookstore partners’ affiliate... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-03-18 15:09:12 UTC ]
THESE TIMES: How to support your local bookstores during the coronavirus pandemic · What China’s literary community is reading during the pandemic · The first lines of 10 classic novels rewritten for social distancing · Can’t decide what to read? Tell us your favorites and we’ll recommend a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-03-17 10:30:26 UTC ]
I had a fight with my mother the other day. In the past we had argued on many things but never politics, because we’d seldom talked about it. The video call, which started with her asking me about the outbreak in the US, ended up opening my eyes to the chasm between me and the […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-03-17 08:49:21 UTC ]