Do you even love books if you haven’t collected all of these independent bookseller cards?

Canadian independent publisher (and bookstore!) Biblioasis has printed up a limited run of indie bookseller trading cards, featuring heroic comic book portraits of prominent booksellers. Why? Well, for starters, this week is the annual independent booksellers conference in Baltimore, the ABA’s Winter Institute, at which thousands of bookstore people drink too much, swap tales of […] Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

[ Literrary Hub | 2020-01-21 13:40:31 UTC ]

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