When did America get its bookstores?
Kelly Burdick
It’s 1931, in a book industry without returns, discounting, superstores, or even paperbacks. Where do you buy a book? As Alexis Madrigal writes in The Atlantic, the answer is not… 1 / Read more »
It’s 1931, in a book industry without returns, discounting, superstores, or even paperbacks. Where do you buy a book? As Alexis Madrigal writes in The Atlantic, the answer is not… 1 / Read more »
In a Publishers Weekly opinion essay, indie publisher John Oakes of OR Books argues that publishers can best fight Amazon by cutting them out of the equation entirely and selling… 2 / Read more »
When the Pulitzer Prize board decided not to present an award for fiction last month, independent bookstores were frustrated at the lack of a winner, which would usually give them… Read more »
Sad news for Parisian anglophones: The famed English-language bookshop The Village Voice is closing its doors July 31st, according to this report on the American Library in Paris website. While… 2 / Read more »
Days after the Authors Guild and the American Booksellers Association (ABA) announced their support for the agency pricing model devised by five of the Big Six publishers and Apple —… Read more »
In one of the most muddled, disorganized, deceitful and cynical series of policy shifts in recent business history, Google has once again announced that it is ending its partnership selling… 2 / Read more »
After innumerable stories about Amazon simply refusing to obey the law and collect sales taxes, along comes perhaps the most delicious bit of news since that bit of belligerence whereby… Read more »
Over on The Bookseller’s blog, a big-name UK agent, Jonny Geller, has put together an ‘agent’s manifesto’, to redress the current problems in the publishing industry. It reads: » The… 7 / Read more »
One of the country’s leading independent bookstores has announced it will be joining Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, and Canada’s Chapters Indigo in boycotting books published by Amazon.com. According to a… Read more »
In one of the most transparent fibs of the year, and amidst a wash of bad publicity, Google announced yesterday that it hadn’t meant to kick numerous indie booksellers out… Read more »