Reading with the stars: New bookstore only stocks books picked by celebs
The editor-in-chief of Out magazine and founder of Grand Editorial, Aaron Hicklin, has just started a new venture: One Grand, a bookstore that only stocks titles handpicked by Tilda Swinton, Lena Dunham, Michael Pollan, Edmund White, and… Read more »
Books-A-Million goes back to privacy
Times are tough for the chain booksellers, apparently—the last tumultuous decade in book selling has seen the disappearance of Borders as well as a relentlessly diminishing Barnes & Noble franchise, and now Publishers Weekly… Read more »
UConn bookstore fights university’s call for chain to replace it
The University of Connecticut’s co-operative book store has put its dukes up after the university signaled that it’s considering replacing the venerable co-op with a privately run retailer. According to Shelf-Awareness, the… Read more »
Amazon shows New Jersey a thing or two about traffic
The fury of activity and commerce that constitutes Amazon holiday fulfillment means frenzied business as usual for those intimately involved in the retail giant’s warehouse division. The company hires thousands of part-time workers… Read more »
Ask a bookseller—our very own Michael Bible, author of Sophia
In life, there are always big questions. But where can you find the big answers? From your local indie bookseller, of course! In this monthly feature, some of our favorite booksellers will… Read more »
Minimalist Tokyo bookstore stocks only one book each week
There’s too much to read. This nagging anxiety afflicts everyone working in/for/around books at some point. And while it’s easy to see how luxurious a complaint it might be, it’s a… Read more »
A new pronoun in the Mx.
For the Observer, Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke reports that while you were busy eating leftover turkey last weekend, the New York Times was grappling with a potential change to their style guide.… Read more »
Dangdang.com to open 1,000 bookstores in China
E-retailers the world over are finally realizing the importance and joys of brick-and-mortar bookstores—or something like that. Yes, it would seem that physical bookstores are on the rise: there are tech-bros in… Read more »
In the city that spends the most on books, it’s only indies now
The American city that spends the most money on books, magazines, and newspapers—Washington, D.C.—will soon be left without any chain bookstores. Despite the recent revival of the brick-and-mortar bookshop (in London, and… Read more »
How to lose that icky post-Black Friday feeling: BINC, a charity for booksellers
Our national retail binge—Black Friday, etc.—is over, and now, perhaps, purged of our desire, we respond to the other impulse that comes on strong at this time of year—charitable giving, and… Read more »