The Fake Scholastic Swindler pleads guilty
Liam O'Brien
The long, sad story of the Scholastic School Swindler has taken a big step towards its conclusion. Robert S. Armstrong, who devised a scheme to defraud hundreds of thousands of… Read more »
News and interviews from the wild, wild world of independent bookselling.
The long, sad story of the Scholastic School Swindler has taken a big step towards its conclusion. Robert S. Armstrong, who devised a scheme to defraud hundreds of thousands of… Read more »
Of the many ways to bond with strangers on a beautiful summer’s day, you can’t beat walking and talking for hours on end. So Melville House and Book Riot (with the… Read more »
Books and summer usually mix pretty well. Longer nights and balmy days make for reading conditions that are close to ideal. But for Norwich’s outstanding independent bookshop, The Book Hive,… Read more »
If you’ve been slowly wrecking your immune system at the Javits Center this week for #BEA15, it’s old news that publishers are going all-out promotionwise. With enough totes to fill… Read more »
Want to browse on Amazon but buy locally? There’s a Chrome extension for that. The extension has the unfortunate name Bookindy, but it serves a great purpose: allowing online buyers… Read more »
Brooklyn has a lot going for it. We have incredible food, lots of parks, art pretty much everywhere, and some kick-ass independent publishers. For people who love real honest-to-god glue… Read more »
SubText Bookstore in St. Paul, MN, is relatively new to the Twin Cities bookstore scene. It opened in 2012 and step up shop in the space formerly occupied by Common… Read more »
The World Cities Cultural Forum recently reported that Buenos Aires boasts more bookstores per capita than any other. It has 735 bookstores for a population of 2.8 million (in city… Read more »
Atlantis Books, the English-language bookstore perched on the cliffs of Oia, a town on the island of Santorini in Greece, will hold its fourth literary festival in September. Founded and… Read more »
Josephine Livingstone had a hit piece on Gawker yesterday titled “Ban Men From Literary Readings.” She argues that a “Q&A session after a reading isn’t a contest,” and that comments… Read more »