More than merely the anti-Amazon, the online book retailer and Brands That Matter honoree has built its own community of devoted readers. Literary staying power can be hard to achieve: Beach reads don’t often become Penguin Classics. The three-year-old Bookshop.org, which sells books to... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2023-10-03 07:00:00 UTC ]
Awareness of Small Business Saturday (SBS) in the UK is growing, with an extra £36m spent in small shops last weekend. The initiative, which encouraged people to shop in their local businesses last Saturday (6th December), is in its second year, but has already seen a marked increase in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-12-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Despite high rents and preliminary data from the U.S. Census Bureau that shows a 7.9% drop in overall bookstore sales for the first half of 2014, PW’s informal poll of nearly two dozen indie bookstores found that many overcame a tough winter and are, in fact, up for the year. Some are way up. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Nine indie stores so far have teamed up to hold a Chicago Independent Bookstore Day this July. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-06-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Many were sounding the death knell for independent bookstores as first Barnes & Noble and then Amazon rose to prominence. But indie stores have surprised the naysayers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-12-17 00:00:00 UTC ]