A heart-warming love letter to books and bookshops, by an amenable fellow turned antisocial old misanthrope“I was in here two years ago and you had a book by Roger Penrose. Do you know what happened to it?” Shaun Bythell – owner of the Book Shop in Wigtown, Galloway – has 100,000 books in stock, sells 20,000 a year, and has handled nearly 1m second-hand books since he bought the shop in 2001. Unsurprisingly, the Roger Penrose volume had not stuck in his mind.Before he entered the book trade at the tender age of 31, he was “amenable and friendly”. Now, after many years of fielding bizarre questions, constant haggling over prices (why is it “acceptable to try to screw the profit out of struggling small businesses” but not supermarkets?), and struggling to survive despite Amazon’s “icy grip” on bookselling, he has been forced to embrace the stereotype of the “impatient, intolerant, antisocial proprietor”. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2019-08-24 10:58:38 UTC ]
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After years of declines, sales climbed in 2015, and the number of stores increased for the fourth year running. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-02-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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New stores are opening in Tulsa and Cleveland, while a store in Rhode Island is celebrating its fifth anniversary as an indie after converting from a Waldenbooks. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-02-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Napa Bookmine adds a second store and Califon Book Shop celebrates its new owner this week. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-02-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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An important riposte to digital culture, these essays by the Italian publisher and author argue that a publisher’s list is a literary work in its own rightThis collection of essays by the Italian author and publisher Roberto Calasso, translated by Richard Dixon, is a paean to publishing. Calasso... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2016-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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This week sees a flurry of store openings, with new indies cropping up in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, St. Paul, and Prescott Valley, Ariz. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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New bookstores are opening within the next two months in Gainesville, Fl., and Chicago. And one hightly curated shop, which displays only ten titles, is thriving north of the border in Toronto, Canada. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-02-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' comes out in book form on July 31, after debuting on the London stage on July 30. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2016-02-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The author of a controversial book on China's president, believed to be the reason five booksellers from the Mighty Current publishing house in Hong Kong went missing between October and December 2015, has released the title online. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A Chinese writer tells the BBC he published a provocative book about President Xi Jinping, linked to five missing Hong Kong booksellers, as a challenge to China. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2016-02-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Is it finally the end for NYC’s St. Mark’s Bookshop? Inside the new Prescott, Ariz., bookstore, the Purple Cat. And more details about the new stores coming to Milwaukee and Washington, D.C. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-02-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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While the mall operator who said on Tuesday that Amazon intends to open up to 400 bookstores is backtracking, the tech giant has posted job openings for several bookstore positions in the San Diego/La Jolla area. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-02-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Here are some ideas for indie booksellers gleaned at this year's ABA Winter Institute, held in Denver January 23–26. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-02-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In case you missed it, here's a roundup of our top stories from the week in magazine media: After 19 Years as EIC, The post Folio: Week in Review – January 30, 2016 appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2016-01-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A children’s bookstore in Bluffton, S.C., changes hands; stores in Newport Beach, Calif., and Springfield, Oh., expand; and a bookstore in Portland, Ore., reopens. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-01-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The heads of the UK publishing's four biggest trade publishers on the successes, and challenges, of 2015. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-01-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In an unpredictable and somewhat paradoxical print performance in 2015, the trio of publishing behemoths all posted respectable growth; yet the ‘Big Three’ collectively claimed their second-lowest share of the market as mid-sized outfits thrived. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-01-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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What will independent booksellers be handselling this season? We spoke with 12 booksellers throughout North America who are looking forward to pushing everything from buzzed-about debuts and under-the-radar experimental novels. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-01-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tech and culture journalist Molly Flatt will join The Bookseller as associate editor of FutureBook. She succeeds Porter Anderson, who has moved to Publishing Perspectives as editor in chief. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-01-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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All of the major BookScan categories had value growth in 2015, and for the two major trade adult genres it was the first positive move in years. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-01-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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