In April, Threadbare Theatre Workshop staged a reading of “or, The Whale” at WORD Bookstore. The Greenpoint-based theater group is now planning a fully staged version of Herman Melville’s classic… Read more »

You may have heard about Independent Bookstore Day, the inevitable and fantastic nationwide expansion of the previously Californian celebration of indie bookstores, booksellers, and all they represent. But do you know what’s… Read more »

James Patterson issued $473,000 in grants to independent bookstores this week—the third time the bestselling author has given out a round of funding as part of his million-dollar #SaveOurBooks campaign.… Read more »

Rizzoli Bookstore looks right. It looks left. It explodes south, barreling past hotels and stops just short of the Flatiron Building on Broadway. The bookstore closed in April 2014 with… Read more »

WORD Bookstore opened its highly anticipated second location in Jersey City last weekend, just in time for the holiday season. Set just a few steps from the Grove Street PATH station… Read more »

The Christian Science Monitor ran a cover story by Yvonne Zipp yesterday about the rise of independent bookstores in the U.S. Business is getting better! Zipp credits the fall of… Read more »

Maybe I’m getting all gooey because WORD Bookstore put up its new sign in Jersey City this week, or because Valentine’s Day is coming up, or whatever, but the right… Read more »

It’s annoying enough to see a moniker as bad as the “Kindle Single” find a lasting place in the bibliographic lexicon, but it’s far more frustrating to find it understood… 1 / Read more »

Jim Hanas, a writer and sometime bookseller, has given an author’s perspective of Amazon’s decision to remove the buy buttons from IPG-distributed ebooks: I’ve never been an anti-Amazon radical. I usually… 1 / Read more »