Just as Kobo has cozied up to physical booksellers, so too does Amazon have a plan to smother them in e-ink kisses. Under the company's new "Amazon Source" program, any independent bookstore that sells a Kindle tablet or e-reader will be rewarded with ten percent of future book purchases made on ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2013-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Seth Godin traces the ups and downs of the independent bookstore since WWII, while proclaiming that today is "a golden age for books," crediting Amazon. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-08-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
The fate of the independent sales representative may be inextricably linked to that of the independent bookstore. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-02-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Several years ago, when I was not a bookstore employee but merely a regular customer, I wrote up BookCourt, an independent bookstore in Brooklyn, for the Village Voice's Best of New York. My entry posited, though I had no evidence to support it, that single people claimed the bookstore was good... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2011-04-04 00:00:00 UTC ]