WI16: Indies Look Back While Charting the Future

Winter Institute 16 kicked off yesterday as a virtual gathering of booksellers. Inspired by such high wattage speakers as Barack Obama and Amanda Gorman, booksellers celebrated their past while charting their future. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-02-19 05:00:00 UTC ]
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[ The Bookseller | 2020-05-07 05:17:26 UTC ]
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Lookout Books Partners With Indies to Provide Virtual Backgrounds

Lookout Books, a teaching press housed at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington, is partnering with indies to provide students and others with virtual bookstore backgrounds to maintain confidentiality during video calls. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-05-06 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon Charts: Rooney scores a blinder

Sally Rooney's Normal People (Faber) has soared six places up the Amazon Charts' Most-Sold: Fiction chart to score the number one. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-05-05 17:09:49 UTC ]
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[ The Bookseller | 2020-05-05 16:37:36 UTC ]
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Bookstat chart: Girl Beneath the Sea surges to top spot, Rooney shoots to second

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[ The Bookseller | 2020-05-05 09:58:28 UTC ]
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PW Star Watch: Looking Back with Superstar Jenn Baker

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[ The Bookseller | 2020-05-02 22:55:42 UTC ]
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[ Literrary Hub | 2020-04-30 16:27:42 UTC ]
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[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-29 21:05:22 UTC ]
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[ Literrary Hub | 2020-04-29 15:24:21 UTC ]
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[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-04-29 04:00:00 UTC ]
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[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-28 15:39:28 UTC ]
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[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-28 13:51:51 UTC ]
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