Remote remains option at Random; WFH touted
Holy hybrid! As reported today in industry tip-sheet Publishers Weekly, book behemoth Penguin Random House intends to keep its workplace “remote-friendly” going forward. In a memo to employees, CEO Madeline… Read more »
At last! Bibliophiles rejoice as bookshops finally reopen across England
It has been a long, cold, hard winter with much of the high street closed in England, but finally, this week, non-essential shops reopened for the first time since the… Read more »
Close to the veg: Headline acquire Grandad’s gardening tips
For those lucky enough to have access to a garden or outdoor space during the pandemic, they have provided more than just an escape from the no-so-great indoors. And with… Read more »
Barrett Browning’s bleak beachcation: lonely letter lamenting isolation lifted to fame
While books have depicted themes of isolation, pandemics, and loneliness for centuries, I think we can all agree that this is the first time we 21st century folk can relate… Read more »
Two Chicago bookstores symbolize what’s at stake this holiday shopping season
Last week we wrote about the American Bookseller Association’s #BoxedOut campaign in which select indie storefronts were covered in the familiar drab of Amazon boxes carrying slogans like “Anyone else feel weird… Read more »
One partnership sending books to prisons
One thing many people have learned during the various stages of coronavirus lockdown is that books make for excellent escapes. For incarcerated people this has long been a truth, but… Read more »
Indie bookstores are nervous about the holiday season
This year has been a garbage fire for everyone, but in the publishing industry, indie booksellers have had a particularly rough go of it. For many indies their business model… Read more »
Booker Prize moves online; digital tomes abound
The famed Booker Prize, like everything else, has moved online this year. The prestigious award, which has a long history of skulduggery, controversy, and fractiousness, has been a relatively sedate… Read more »
Bookstores out west re-open . . . and re-close
It’s been terrifying to study the hockey stick-shaped graphs of Covid-19 spikes in places like Arizona and Texas, states that had closed-down insufficiently and have now re-opened too early. Unfortunately, this has… Read more »
Ex-Librarian and bookseller sentenced in decades-long theft scheme
Librarians, they’re just like us! Well, if you are someone who would steal $8 million of rare books and artifacts from the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, that is. Michael Levenson… Read more »