March 26, 2015

Last month, Barnes & Noble unveiled its newest attempt at revitalizing its flailing brand: a shopping bag. According to Bloomberg, the bags debuted in New York and will be making… Read more »

Booksellers & bookselling

Ask a bookseller---Book Court's Bonnie Chau — Melville House
Customer threatens Northshire Bookstore for displaying the Qur’an — Kait Howard
Isis Books & Gifts changes signage, dodges blind wrath of ignorant brick-throwers — Simon Reichley
Barnes & Noble takes penultimate step to exiting Queens — Liam O'Brien

Christian bookstore chain refusing to sell books about visiting heaven, because they might all be made up

Liam O'Brien

What causes 180 bookstores to stop carrying wildly successful bestsellers? Integrity, dammit, that’s what. LifeWay Christian Resources, a major Christian bookstore chain, has officially stopped carrying any book in which the… Read more »

Richard Russo leads a drive to save the Gloversville Public Library

Claire Kelley

In the early 1900s, Gloversville, New York was the city that was responsible for producing ninety percent of dress gloves in the United States. Unfortunately, that fashion choice went out… Read more »

Stephen King wants Governor Paul LePage to “man up and apologize”

Taylor Sperry

It’s tax season, everyone! And in a radio address in which he proposed a tax overhaul plan, Maine Governor Paul LePage suggested that “famous residents [are] leaving the state because… Read more »

Melville House Books

Barnes & Noble’s new bags are a small, beautiful, very small step in the right direction

Alex Shephard