Astoria Bookshop is selling Ta-Nehisi Coates’ book at cost to encourage people to read it
The building sense of urgency leading up to the publication of Between The World And Me, the second book by Ta-Nehisi Coates, was palpable. The decision by Spiegel & Grau to move… Read more »
Verso to reissue Bernie Sanders’s 1997 political autobiography as Outsider in the White House
Verso, the great radical publishers, have many authors on their list who would make for fine presidential candidates. One can imagine Fredric Jameson kicking off a mournful, utopian campaign in… Read more »
The darkest timeline: Powell’s Books, a wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon
Oregon had two new stories to celebrate today. The non-cannabis one is in an unassuming piece in the Willamette Week that describes the moment when indie bookselling almost signed its own death… Read more »
Anti-corporate judge dismisses indie bookseller suit against Amazon
Three indie bookstores had their lawsuit against Amazon and the Big Five dismissed, in every sense of the word, last week. As we’ve discussed twice previously this suit, filed last… Read more »
Authors to become booksellers for a day with Indies First
You may be surprised to see who rings you up when you visit your local indie bookstore on November 30. On September 1, author Sherman Alexie introduced the Indies First… Read more »
Overanalyzing Neil Gaiman’s Digital Minds Conference keynote address
Yesterday, we reported on Neil Gaiman’s recent keynote address at the London Book Fair’s Digital Minds Conference. In that speech, Gaiman told his audience that “Amazon, Google and all of those… Read more »
Hail & Fairwell: Mr. Paperback
Fifty years is a long time to run a retail business. Especially if that business is selling books. For 50 years Mr. Paperback bookstores have serviced the greater Maine area.… 1 / Read more »