San Diego's Mysterious Galaxy Seeks New Owner and New Location

San Diego's Mysterious Galaxy bookstore must find a new owner and a new location before its lease expires in less than 60 days. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-11-26 05:00:00 UTC ]
News tagged with: #san diego #bookstore

Other Publishing stories related to: 'San Diego's Mysterious Galaxy Seeks New Owner and New Location'


Five great new mysteries and thrillers to look forward to this spring

Find intrigue, suspense — and an escape! — in new books by Linwood Barclay, Nancy Tucker, M.L. Longworth and more. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2021-04-18 13:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #linwood barclay


Five of 2020's best crime writers on where mystery fiction is today

Times Book Prize finalists Rachel Howzell Hall, Ivy Pochoda, S.A. Crosby, Jennifer Hillier and Christopher Bollen talk about race, place and genre. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2021-04-09 14:25:05 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #crime writers #mystery fiction #ivy pochoda #times book


Authors fear the worst if Penguin owner takes over Simon & Schuster

Analysis: if Bertelsmann, owner of Penguin Random House, buys US publisher, writers expect smaller deals and less choice for readersUK watchdog investigates Penguin owner’s Simon & Schuster takeoverJokes circulated online when, in 2013, Penguin and Random House merged: would the new... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2021-03-22 23:24:23 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #simon schuster #john irving #stephen king #bob woodward #publishing industry #justice department #authors guild #trade publishing #random house


UK watchdog investigates Penguin owner’s Simon & Schuster takeover

CMA says it is considering whether Penguin Random House’s $2bn deal would lessen competitionAuthors fear the worst if Bertelsmann takes over Simon & SchusterThe UK competition watchdog has launched an investigation into Penguin Random House’s $2bn (£1.45bn) takeover of Simon & Schuster,... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2021-03-22 09:00:30 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #simon schuster #dan brown #hillary clinton #stephen king #barack obama #bob woodward #john grisham #authors including #ernest hemingway #$2bn deal #bertelsmann


15 Mystery Book Club Recommendations for Your Group

Are you in the market for some mystery book club suggestions? We've got 15 thriller and mystery book club recommendations for you! Continue reading at Book Riot

[ Book Riot | 2021-03-18 10:34:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #book club


Independent bookstore owners look back at a year spent trying to stay afloat. Not all of them succeeded.

Bouncers, hand deliveries and debt became the new reality for shop owners across the country. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2021-03-15 12:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #stay afloat #bookstore


Pearson to retain office locations in Strand, Oxford and Harlow

Pearson has confirmed it will be keeping office locations at Oxford and Harlow, and at its headquarters at 80 Strand WC2, despite this week announcing a strategy of "significantly" reducing office space. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-03-12 23:30:26 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #pearson


Green Apple Books to Downsize at Flagship Location

San Francisco’s Green Apple Books will consolidate space at its flagship Clement Street location by September, reducing the store’s overall size back to its original 1996 footprint. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-03-11 05:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #flagship location #consolidate space #size back #apple books


Green Apple Books to Downsize at Flagship Location

San Francisco’s Green Apple Books will consolidate space at its flagship Clement Street location by September, reducing the store’s overall size back to its original 1996 footprint. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-03-11 05:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #flagship location #consolidate space #size back #apple books


‘The Scapegoat’ is a bizarre, arresting mystery you won’t be able to put down

In Sara Davis’s debut novel, menace gathers. So does a marvelously calibrated pace and tension. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2021-03-09 15:30:25 UTC ]
More news stories like this |


House Introduces Bill Seeking $5 Billion for Library Facilities

The Build America’s Libraries Act was introduced in the House of Representatives this week by Reps. Andy Levin (D-MI) and Don Young (R-AK) and would provide $5 billion to address decades of needed repairs, updates, as well as the construction of modern library facilities in underserved and... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-03-05 05:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #libraries act #libraries


Margaret Maron, Acclaimed Mystery Writer, Dies at 82

She was known for two book series centered on complex female characters, and for stories that illuminated her native North Carolina. Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2021-03-02 23:14:40 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #book series


Chicago company acquires San Mateo-based QuanticMind

Chicago-based Centro Inc., a maker of advertising software, is acquiring a San Mateo-based predictive advertising technology company.  Centro announced Wednesday that it is acquiring QuanticMind Inc. Its software uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to analyze data and provide... Continue reading at Silicon Valley Business Journal

[ Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2021-02-24 22:49:15 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #artificial intelligence #machine learning #digital media


Old mysteries and adventure stories deliver a dose Grand Guignol theatricality and nonstop comic-book action

There are nostalgic pleasures aplenty in stories published in 1930s pulp magazines or dramatized in 1940s radio programs. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2021-02-24 16:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #stories published


Lawrence Ferlinghetti, literary citadel of San Francisco, dies at 101

The acclaimed poet was longtime proprietor of City Lights, the San Francisco bookstore and avant-garde publishing house that catapulted the Beat Generation to fame. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2021-02-23 06:26:33 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #lawrence ferlinghetti #acclaimed poet #city lights #beat generation #bookstore


Head of Zeus snaps up two more Savernake mysteries from Edwards

Head of Zeus has acquired the next two novels in Martin Edwards' Rachel Savernake series, Darkstone Falls and Sepulchre Street.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-02-22 04:24:14 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #zeus snaps #martin edwards


Meet the bookstore owner behind National Black Literacy Day.

Chicago’s only Black woman-owned bookstore opened in the summer of 2019. Over the past two years, Semicolon has served as a vital and vibrant cultural hub and gallery space. Last summer, as the coronavirus began to tear through our country and small businesses had to close their doors, Semicolon... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2021-02-12 16:25:48 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #bookstore owner #small businesses #bookstore


Two historical mystery novels plunge readers into the past while keeping them guessing

“The House on Vesper Sands” and “The Historians” feature appealing characters, who are the true draw of any well-told tale. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2021-02-08 14:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |


Walter Mosley’s new Easy Rawlins book is a masterful mix of mystery and social commentary

Amid its twisty plot, “Blood Grove,” set in 1969 Los Angeles, highlights racial injustice. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2021-02-05 17:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #walter mosley #social commentary


A ‘money pit’ dog, an ailing owner and one big question

Journalist Martha Teichner tells the story of how she gained a pet and a friend. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2021-02-05 13:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #big question