Book Club, an indie on Manhattan's Lower East Side, was only open for a few months before the pandemic hit. Since then, its owners have gotten creative, and are raising the store’s profile. Here's how. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-10-02 04:00:00 UTC ]
News tagged with:
#book club
#pandemic hit
#bookstore
Jane Wong’s memoir Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City is a feast of a book. It’s about hunger—the hungers of the body, of addiction, of history. Brilliant, gutting, and funny, she writes with such range about growing up in her family’s Chinese restaurant in Atlantic City as their reach for the... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2023-08-31 11:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#post growing
#atlantic city
#electric literature
#memoir
Stops in the states of Texas, Colorado, and New York are planned for the Jaipur Literature Festival's international tour in September. The post India’s Jaipur Literature Festival Heads for Three US Cities appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2023-08-28 18:36:15 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#post india
#international tour
#literature festival
If you guessed London, you’re right—London is mentioned at least three times more often than any other European city. (Wonder why?) As Travel Daily reports, a digital printing company called Aura Print has apparently processed the entire Google Books database to “identify the cumulative mentions... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2023-08-22 14:51:06 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#google books
Despite a dip in June, sales increased 6.9% at bookstores during the first six months of 2023 over last year, rising to $3.86 billion. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2023-08-15 04:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
With lists on cute cryptids, decolonial SFF, trans comics, and more, these indie bookstore websites are as fun to browse as their shelves! Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2023-08-08 10:32:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#bookstore
In an August 4 ruling, federal judge M. Casey Rodgers transferred Trump's $50 million copyright suit against Bob Woodward and publisher Simon & Schuster to the Southern District of New York, where Trump was hit with sanctions for filing a frivolous lawsuit earlier this year. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2023-08-08 04:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#trump tapes
#federal judge
#bob woodward
#southern district
Michael Chabon—the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Wonder Boys, and The Yiddish Policeman’s Union—spent his Covid quarantine taking a trip…through time! Well, not literally, but in an emotional and curatorial sense, the speculative fiction maestro... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2023-08-04 16:04:28 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#time traveller
#amazing adventures
#kavalier clay
#prize-winning author
A part of Arkansas' Act 372 would make it a crime for booksellers and librarians to give minors certain state-disapproved books. The post A US Court Temporarily Blocks a Library and Bookstore Law appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2023-07-31 00:15:55 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#bookstore
The seven-year-old Seattle-based Libro.fm opens a Bookshop.org-style audiobook-selling service in the UK, Australia, and New Zealand. The post Libro.fm Opens, Audiobook Sales Through Local Bookstores appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2023-07-26 13:34:20 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#audiobook sales
#local bookstores
#audiobook
After falling in April, bookstore sales rose 6% in May over 2022, rising to $650 million from $613 million a year ago. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2023-07-18 04:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#$650 million
#bookstore sales
Two days after New England and the Mid-Atlantic were inundated with record rainfall that left parts of Vermont and other states flooded, booksellers in the region are recovering. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2023-07-12 04:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
An Asian American-owned bookstore in Manhattan’s Chinatown left gutted by a July fourth fire is getting flooded with support from the community, writers and celebrities Continue reading at ABC News
[ ABC News | 2023-07-07 18:01:56 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#bookstore
The woman and Asian American–owned bookstore, in the Chinatown neighborhood in Manhattan, will require a total renovation over the next year due to a fire in a residential unit above its premises. It topped its goal of $150,000 overnight. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2023-07-07 04:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#asian american
#year due
#bookstore
A growing crop of indie booksellers in the area are aiming to be multipurpose spaces for their neighborhoods. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2023-07-07 04:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#indie booksellers
A transgender woman, the owners of an independent bookstore and an educator who teaches in costume are among those challenging Montana's first-in-the-nation law that bans people dressed in drag from reading to children in public schools or libraries Continue reading at ABC News
[ ABC News | 2023-07-07 01:02:34 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#transgender woman
#teacher sue
#challenging montana
#first-in-the-nation law
#public schools
#independent bookstore
A transgender woman, the owners of an independent bookstore and an educator who teaches in costume are among those challenging Montana's first-in-the-nation law that bans people dressed in drag from reading to children in public schools or libraries Continue reading at ABC News
[ ABC News | 2023-07-07 00:47:04 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#transgender woman
#teacher sue
#challenging montana
#first-in-the-nation law
#public schools
#independent bookstore
NASCAR's Chicago street race during the holiday weekend shut down many businesses along the route, including Exile in Bookville, which sustained thousands of dollars in losses. Some of that loss was alleviated by a spike in online orders by customers wanting to support the store. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2023-07-05 04:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#online orders
#bookstore
A new queer indie bookstore is splitting profits with LGBTQ authors and spreading queer joy and literacy with a rainbow book bus. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2023-06-20 10:40:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#lgbtq authors
#bookstore
After rising 11.9% in the first quarter of 2023, bookstore sales fell 0.9% in April from a year ago, dropping to $580 million from $585 million, according to estimates from the government. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2023-06-15 04:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#bookstore sales
You won't make a living wage working as a bookseller in an indie bookstore. Here's a look at wages across the country. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2023-06-12 10:37:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#living wage
#indie bookstores
#indie bookstore
#bookseller