This year’s award goes to the beloved Detroit shop whose octogenarian owner, Janet Webster Jones, is considered bookselling royalty. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-04-18 04:00:00 UTC ]
The nominees for this year’s Bookstore and Sales Rep of the Year have much in common: dedication, experience, expertise, a focus on building community through books, and an abiding love of the written word. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-04-18 04:00:00 UTC ]
The Fort Worth, Tex., bookstore has grown from a 120-sq.-ft. space inside a gourmet products shop to a full-service store in the city’s cultural district. But don’t talk politics. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-04-17 04:00:00 UTC ]
Within months after this Oakland, Calif., bookstore was destroyed by fire last year, owner Brad Johnson had a new shop opened and focused on his mission of fostering curiosity, compassion, and intelligent critical thought. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-04-16 04:00:00 UTC ]
At the Bremerton, Wash.–based bookstore, community building is the top priority. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-04-14 04:00:00 UTC ]
This year’s top honor goes to a 128-year-old store that is beloved by its community, plays host to vibrant literary events for authors large and small, and serves as an anchor business for the Village of La Jolla, Calif. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-04-19 04:00:00 UTC ]
In the past decade, Writer’s Block, which sells new books for both adults and children, has become a literary hub of the Greater Orlando metro area. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-04-18 04:00:00 UTC ]
The Red Balloon, founded in 1984 in St. Paul, Minn., specializes in books for children of all ages. It has been a community gathering space for decades. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-04-17 04:00:00 UTC ]
Cofounded in Calle 24, San Francisco’s Latino cultural district, in 2021, the bookstore specializes in radical literature, poetry, and Spanish-language titles, and embodies the Mission District’s storied revolutionary spirit. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-04-16 04:00:00 UTC ]
Founded in 1973, Antigone Books stands strong as a Tucson, Ariz., feminist landmark. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-04-15 04:00:00 UTC ]
The five bookstore finalists and five sales rep finalists have been announced in PW's annual award program. Winners will be announced at PW's U.S. Book Show set for May 23-26. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-03-15 04:00:00 UTC ]
The innovative Colorado bookstore is the 26th recipient of the PW Bookstore of the Year Award. Among the store's firsts, it is the first store to buy on Edelweiss and one of the first to offer consignment sections by publisher. John Mesjak with Abraham Associates was named this year's PW Sales... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
For the first time in the nearly 25-year history of the PW Bookstore of the Year Awards, a children’s only bookstore, Wild Rumpus in Minneapolis, was named one of five finalists. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-01-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Books Inc. is PW Bookstore Of the Year, Solomon best rep and more in this week's publishing news briefs. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-03-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Twenty years ago, if someone had told Pete Mulvihill, Kevin Ryan, and Kevin Hunsanger that they would one day own Green Apple Books, the store where they then worked, all three of them would have been “gob-smacked”—much like their reaction last month when they were told that their San Francisco... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Booksellers from the Midwest and the West Coast dominate this year's shortlist for the 22nd annual award. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]