Denver Indie Bookstore Launches BookBar Press with Debut Release

Independent Denver bookstore BookBar has launched its new publishing division, BookBar Press, with the publication of an anthology of micro-plays written by area playwrights. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-12-15 05:00:00 UTC ]

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Amazon’s layoffs at Goodreads: Another blow for the long-suffering book review platform?

The e-commerce giant has been criticized over its stewardship of Goodreads since it bought the platform in 2013, fueling the rise of competitors. Amazon famously started as an online bookstore. In the three decades since, it has disrupted how people buy, read, and review books through steps... Continue reading at Fast Company

[ Fast Company | 2025-06-06 13:34:00 UTC ]
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Center for Fiction Staff Win Union Recognition

Employees of the Brooklyn bookstore and literary hub have won voluntary union recognition from management and will begin contract negotiations in the coming weeks, joining the growing number of booksellers organized under the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2025-06-03 04:00:00 UTC ]
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‘A sense of belonging.’ How this Boston bookstore changes lives.

More Than Words is a bookstore, but one that does more than sell $3.8 million worth of merchandise a year. It serves young people who are dealing with homelessness or legal challenges and gives them a place where they belong. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2025-06-02 20:42:21 UTC ]
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Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for May 30, 2025

Life-ruining books, demon possession through social media, the bookstore at the end of the world, and more of today's best book deals. Continue reading at Book Riot

[ Book Riot | 2025-05-30 14:45:00 UTC ]
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Strand Bookstore to Take Over Last Shakespeare & Co. Location in NYC

Shakespeare & Co. will transfer ownership of its last New York storefront, located on the Upper West Side, to Strand Book Store on June 1, marking the end of an era for the beloved bookseller. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2025-05-19 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Center for Fiction Employees Seek to Unionize

A supermajority of staff at Brooklyn’s Center for Fiction have filed with the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union and requested recognition from the nonprofit bookseller. A growing number of New York City bookstore employees have joined the RWDSU in recent years. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2025-05-16 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Hinge Drops a Romance Anthology to Help Gen Z Believe in Love Again

Hinge created an anthology of real love stories that will run on Substack and as a physical book. Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2025-05-12 08:00:00 UTC ]
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See LoveFrom’s new branding for one of the best bookstores in the U.S.

William Stout bookstore is a legendary home to design and architecture books. Now, it’s revealing an updated brand courtesy of Jony Ive’s firm LoveFrom. Since 1974, William Stout Architectural Books in San Francisco’s Jackson Square has been one of the city’s most iconic destinations for its... Continue reading at Fast Company

[ Fast Company | 2025-05-09 13:00:00 UTC ]
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On Being a Poor Black Punk and Working at the Strand Bookstore

In 1987, I got a job at the famous Strand bookstore in Union Square. My ska band, the Boilers, rehearsed down the block at a place called Giant Studios, and I stopped in the Strand one day with every intention to steal a book but instead decided to ask if any positions were open. Every […] Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2025-05-09 08:58:29 UTC ]
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Publisher behind hit bilingual poetry book on A470 turns to Welsh rivers

Arachne Press says Afonydd (Rivers) was inspired by success of A470: Poems for the Road/Cerddi’r FforddIts volume of bilingual poetry celebrating the A470 road, which zigzags through Wales, proved a surprise hit.Inspired by the success, an independent publisher is releasing another anthology in... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2025-05-05 10:17:12 UTC ]
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Midtown’s Scribner Building to be auctioned off Wednesday

A historic Midtown building is up for auction after years of financial trouble.The Charles Scribner’s Sons Building, which opened in 1913, is set to be auctioned off Wednesday after it went into foreclosure late last year. The building is the former home of publisher Charles Scribner’s Sons’... Continue reading at Crains New York

[ Crains New York | 2025-04-29 18:48:19 UTC ]
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Amazon “Accidentally” Plans Book Sale Event At Same Time as Independent Bookstore Day

Amazon "oops sorry" all over indie bookstore day, a really scary proposed Texas law, and more of the day's book news. Continue reading at Book Riot

[ Book Riot | 2025-04-28 15:15:00 UTC ]
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At 13, Charlotte Brontë Already Knew How Good a Writer She Would Be

An anthology of her teenage poetry, published for the first time, shows ambition, even if the verse isn’t perfect. Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2025-04-25 19:47:37 UTC ]
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For this Indie Bookstore Day, here are ten odes to ten of our favorite bookstores.

Tomorrow, Saturday 4/26, is Independent Bookstore Day! And while every day can and should be Independent Bookstore Day (stop buying books from Amazon, stop linking to books on Amazon, stop posting the Amazon sales and the B&N sales on your social media), it’s nice that we have a dedicated... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2025-04-25 14:00:29 UTC ]
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Lit Hub Daily: April 25, 2025

Ginny Hogan on why we love to see the beauty and disappointment of toxic female friendships on the page and the screen. | Lit Hub Criticism Today on the Lit Hub podcast, we’re celebrating Indie Bookstore Day! | Lit Hub Radio Gabrielle Bellot reads Zoë Schlanger’s The Light Eaters and wonders if... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2025-04-25 10:30:33 UTC ]
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New on the Lit Hub Podcast: Celebrating Indie Bookstore Day!

A weekly behind-the-scenes dive into everything interesting, dynamic, strange, and wonderful happening in literary culture—featuring Lit Hub staff, columnists, and special guests! Hosted by Drew Broussard. April is, as it turns out, a great month for book lovers: the first big wave of pre-summer... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2025-04-25 09:45:12 UTC ]
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Gillian Anderson announces ‘even more daring’ follow-up to bestselling book of sexual fantasies

Sex Education star calls on women to send in their anonymous submissions for a second volume of her 2024 title WantGillian Anderson has announced a follow-up to her bestselling anthology of female sexual fantasies, Want, with the hope that it will be “more international, and even more... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2025-04-23 10:00:40 UTC ]
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