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After more than a decade of digitally fostered decline, bookstores are making a comeback says CBS News in a recent article: Between 2009 and 2015, more than 570 independent bookstores opened in the U.S., bringing the total to more than 2,200; that’s…
Though Fire and Fury, Michael Wolff’s book about the Trump White House had been set for publication on January 8th, following a cease and desist order from President Donald Trump’s lawyer, publisher Henry Holt moved the publication up several days, to January…
“Margot met Robert on a Wednesday night toward the end of her fall semester. She was working behind the concession stand at the artsy movie theatre downtown when he came in and bought a large popcorn and a box of Red Vines.”…
The largest Spanish language book fair in the world runs through December 3 in Guadalajara. From Mexico News Daily: The 31st edition of the Guadalajara International Book Fair, better known as the FIL, will welcome more than 700 guest writers from…
David Adams Richards, one of Canada’s most esteemed and celebrated authors, has been appointed to the Canadian senate. Richards is the only author to have won Canada’s most sought after literary prize, the Governor General’s Award, for both fiction and non-fiction. In…
There is a single romance-dedicated bookstore in the United States. Is anyone surprised that the store, called Ripped Bodice, is in LA? From the Los Angeles Times: The high-ceilinged space is located behind an unapologetically pink storefront in downtown Culver City, and…
Though Amazon’s forays into real space bookselling have thus far been modest, their future plans are anything but. From The New York Times: The company is exploring the idea of creating stores to sell furniture and home appliances, like refrigerators —…
Bookstores are better. Book lovers everywhere know that. No matter how much online retailers try to be all things to all people, when it comes to getting up close and personal with their customers, no one does it better than an independent…
Parts of the book business have been hitting hard times of late. There are all kinds of way of fighting back. Amazon, for instance, just released a smaller and sexier Kindle. And Barnes & Nole? They’ve hired an executive chef. From Time…
by Tony Buchsbaum I think of it as book publishing’s running of the bulls. Thousands of people — booksellers, assorted book professionals, and press — gather in quasi-defined lines, crowds really (okay, hordes), hearts aflutter, as the minutes count down to the opening of Book…