Bookselling Roundup for September 26

This week marks the launch of a new literary festival in New Jersey and two new bookstores (King City Books in Mt. Vernon, Ill., and Vallejo Bookstore in Vallejo, Calif.). Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

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Bookselling, Publishing Unions Make Progress

The employees at Greenlight Bookstores and Yours Truly stationery stores in Brooklyn unanimously ratified their first union contract after joining the RWDSU. Earlier this month, the NLRB rejected Duke University's challenge to the union formed by members of Duke University Press last year. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for March 26, 2022

This edition of Daily Deals is sponsored by Macmillan eDeals.`Macmillan eDeals`https://bookriot.com/giveaways/win-a-kindle-oasis-3`https://bookriot.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/KindleOasisEAC_300x250_OPT-1-2.jpg.optimal.jpg` Continue reading at Book Riot

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Book Riot’s YA Deals of the Day: March 26, 2022

The best YA ebook deals, sponsored by the audiobook edition of The Lost Dreamer. `the audiobook edition of The Lost... Continue reading at Book Riot

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Rights Roundup: Ukraine’s Andrej Kurkow and ‘Grey Bees’

Even amid the excitement and pleasure in an in-person staging of Bologna Children's Book Fair, the Ukraine nightmare was never forgotten. The post Rights Roundup: Ukraine’s Andrej Kurkow and ‘Grey Bees’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

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Snow Days 2022: Booksellers Use Their Superpower in Cultural War

Singer-songwriter Alicia Keys set the tone for the final afternoon of the ABA's new virtual conference for indie booksellers when she urged them to tap into their superpower: the ability to fight back against book bannings. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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Bookselling Spotlight: Mitzi’s Books

We talk with Mary Ackland, retail manager of Mitzi’s Books in Rapid City, S.Dak. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-03-11 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Snow Days 2022: Booksellers Time Travel to 2032, Return Before Lunch

In the first event of ABA's Snow Days conference, game designer Jane McGonigal led more than 500 participants in a few rounds of “mental time travel,” in which she asked listeners, among other things, to peer 10 years ahead to everyone's collective future in bookselling, Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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Bookselling Spotlight: Soul Book Nook

Waterloo, Iowa’s Soul Book Nook is the first and only Black-owned indie in a state where, according to the most recent U.S. Census, less than 4% the population identifies as African American. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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Indie Booksellers Pick Some Favorites

We look at the adult and children’s authors originally tapped by booksellers to appear at this year’s Winter Institute—although due to the cancellation of the in-person event, the panel will now be virtual. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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Hodder signs King's 'magnificent' Fairy Tale for September release

Stephen King has written  “a magnificent and terrifying tale” about a teenage boy with keys to a parallel world. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Bookselling Spotlight: The Reading Bug

Lauren Savage and Diane Savage, her mother-in-law, opened The Reading Bug in San Carlos, Calif., a community south of San Francisco and north of Palo Alto, in 2008. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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Ian McEwan’s ‘most epic book to date’ to be published in September

The Booker prize-winning author’s new novel Lessons is ‘a powerful meditation on history and humanity told through the prism of one man’s lifetime’Ian McEwan’s “most epic book to date”, moving from the end of the second world war to the current pandemic and exploring the impact of childhood... Continue reading at The Guardian

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McEwan's 'mesmerising' Lessons signed by Cape for September release

Ian McEwan’s “ambitious and mesmerising” new novel Lessons will be published by Jonathan Cape in September.   Continue reading at The Bookseller

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A Murky Crystal Ball for Booksellers

Indie booksellers had a solid 2021, but are uncertain as to what 2022 will hold. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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September scoops artist Kambalu's childhood memoir

September Publishing has acquired an updated edition of Samson Kambalu's "wickedly funny, artistic" childhood memoir The Jive Talker: Or How To Get a British Passport.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

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‘The Paris Bookseller’ honors the American woman who published ‘Ulysses’

Kerri Maher’s novel “The Paris Bookseller” celebrates the life of American Sylvia Beach, a bookstore owner who saw promise in James Joyce’s “Ulysses.” Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

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Halls 'enormously proud' of booksellers but warns of challenges ahead

Booksellers Association managing director Meryl Halls says she is "enormously proud" of what booksellers have achieved this year but has raised concerns about "another unsettling stretch" with the emergence of the Omicron variant of Covid-19, concerns about inflation and continued issues with... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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The Bookseller launches annual Christmas trading survey for indies

The Bookseller is inviting independent bookshops across the UK and Ireland to complete its annual Christmas trading survey. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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The Bookseller 150: new talent is intent on broadening reach

Four in 10 of this year’s list of the book trade’s big cheeses are either new entries or 2021 first-timers, reflecting how the pandemic has reshaped publishing leadership. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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