Hug an author today! Fifty-four percent of debut authors responding to Bookseller survey said the process had a negative impact on their mental health—equally likely to feel bummed out whether they pubbed with a Big Four or an indie publisher. One, quoted anonymously in The Bookseller’s report, said they started anti-anxiety medication during the run-up […] Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'
[ Literrary Hub | 2023-04-24 15:32:12 UTC ]
The coding system was intended to help book-focused businesses categorize their collections. But some indie booksellers say that, as far as their businesses are concerned, BISAC has lost the plot. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2025-04-18 04:00:00 UTC ]
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The collection to be auctioned includes journals and cookbooks that inmate Albert Jones has written from death row. The bookseller representing him says it offers a rare glimpse into life on one of America's most notorious cell blocks. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2025-04-02 10:00:16 UTC ]
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McKinstry, who worked as a bookseller at a number of prominent indies in London, Denver, New York City, and Seattle, as well as a communications manager for the American Booksellers Association, died in Seattle on March 8. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2025-04-01 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Change seems to come naturally to some areas. Gentrifying post-industrial swaths of Brooklyn and Queens, perhaps, are used to blocks that morph in quick time.But differences may be harder to swallow in more established neighborhoods, such as the Upper West Side, where the enclave along Broadway... Continue reading at Crains New York
[ Crains New York | 2025-03-27 10:03:09 UTC ]
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Fiona McFarlane has won the 21st annual Story Prize for her collection Highway Thirteen. The Story Prize’s $20,000 prize is among the largest first-prize amounts of any annual U.S. book award for fiction.The judges—writer and editor Elliott Holt, writer Maurice Carlos Ruffin, and bookseller Lucy... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2025-03-26 11:20:24 UTC ]
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Two Dollar Radio has been quietly rocking the publishing world since its inception in 2005. The Ohio-based indie publisher and “family outfit” turns twenty this year, and we at Lit Hub want to extend a hearty happy birthday. In a literary landscape that’s often knocked for a fear of risk-taking,... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2025-03-14 18:01:37 UTC ]
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Purple Mountain Press, which has published local and regional books about the natural and cultural history of upstate New York since 1973, is now under the ownership of four locals seeking to revitalize the indie publisher. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2025-02-12 05:00:00 UTC ]
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The 1991 collaboration between Sarah Byam and the late comics artist Tim Sale has been reissued with the help of a crowdfunding campaign and San Diego–based indie publisher Clover Press. PW talked with Byam about returning to ‘Billi 99’ and working with Sale, who died in 2022. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2025-02-12 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Over the past couple years, I’ve been accidentally moonlighting as a bookseller on Hinge. Selling books on Hinge (and occasionally Tinder, once in a while Feeld) started happening pretty effortlessly, through a few back and forths with a match. I’ve organically sold my book Women at least a... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2025-02-10 09:58:28 UTC ]
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L.A. indie publisher Unnamed Press has started a poetry line devoted to “collaborative cross-media projects,” and its first releases include books by musician Emma Ruth Rundle and translator Alana Marie Levinson-Labrosse. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2025-02-07 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Like Gold in the River: A Review of Radwa Ashour’s Granada Trilogy, by Gretchen McCullough Book Reviews [email protected] Tue, 02/04/2025 - 15:24 Background photo by Taiga / Adobe Stock / Author photo courtesy of AUC Press Years ago, I... Continue reading at World Literature Today
[ World Literature Today | 2025-02-04 21:24:18 UTC ]
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After a decade of downsizing, the beloved bookseller is seeing a resurgence thanks in part to TikTok’s #BookTok and a rise in so-called third spaces. January was a long month, but we finally have some good news in 2025: Bookseller Barnes & Noble plans to open at least 60 new stores this... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2025-02-03 20:30:00 UTC ]
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The bookseller is applying its sales model—where online purchases support indie bookstores—to digital books. It has also released a mobile app for shopping and reading ebooks. Continue reading at Wired
[ Wired | 2025-01-28 11:30:00 UTC ]
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The indie publisher hopes to get ‘The Tulsa Race Massacre: The Department of Justice Review and Evaluation,’ which was released as a federal report on January 17, into bookstores by mid February. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2025-01-27 05:00:00 UTC ]
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White Nights, the author’s 1848 novella, sounds an unlikely candidate to go viral, but the story of lovelorn loneliness is now a favourite among TikTok and Instagram usersBeing popular on TikTok can make just about anything fly off the shelves, from beauty products to cucumbers, which became one... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2024-12-17 17:45:43 UTC ]
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The Bookseller has selected six books for their 46th annual Diagram Prize shortlist for The Oddest Book Title of the Year, a prize they’ve been awarding since 1978. (According to Sarah Lyall, the prize began “as a way for Bruce Robertson, co-founder of the Diagram Group, an information and... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-11-18 19:09:25 UTC ]
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