Nancy Bass Wyden, owner of Strand Book Store, with two locations in Manhattan, has posted an open letter on social media asking for help from the local community, saying sales are down 70% and the need for more support has become urgent. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-10-23 04:00:00 UTC ]
Many libraries publish art and literary magazines featuring authors and artists from their local community and from all over the world. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-04-13 10:31:23 UTC ]
Hachette is offering independent booksellers a 5% discount off of MSRP for any title that is sold and delivered to customers in their local community by staff or courier. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-03-17 04:00:00 UTC ]
Building relationships in one's local community is key to creating productive and profitable events, a panel of four veteran booksellers told an audience of 50 at BEA on Wednesday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
CILIP member Andy Richardson has called on the organisation to oppose the “amateurisation” of public library services. Richardson said that allowing library services to be run by volunteers in the local community with little or no funding for professional or paid library staff, proposed by many... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-09-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Writer Bridget Minamore, whose interests cover "hip-hop, climate change, feminism and football", has been chosen by the Hospital Club's new charitable foundation as part of its Emerging Creatives programme. The private members' club for the creative professions has marked its 10th anniversary... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-02-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
I wrote the other week about Rupert Murdoch's newspaper outfit, News UK, being reborn by putting a digital smile on Wapping's face.Now, with the company's move to London Bridge in mind, the publisher has put a smile on the face of Southwark Cathedral by donating £1,000 to its All Hallows... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2013-12-17 00:00:00 UTC ]