Continued Covid crisis catalyzes e-book sales; fallout feared
As the coronavirus returns to center stage, like the killer in a teen horror movie, except a lot less fun, an unsurprising rise in e-book sales has followed. According to… Read more »
Bookshop.org raises £1 million for UK indie booksellers
It looks like Bookshop.org is continuing its meteoric rise across the pond. Allison Flood reports in the Guardian that the e-commerce site has raised one million pounds for independent booksellers… Read more »
Anti-Antifa book protested at Powell’s Books; free speech confusion continues
Protestors have gathered at famous indie bookstore Powell’s, in Portland, Oregon, to express their opposition to the store’s selling of Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy, by right-wing… Read more »
Bye-Bye BEA: Big Book Bonanza Bails, No Replacement Seen
In a move that surprised exactly no one, trade-show behemoth ReedPop announced that BookExpo, formerly the annual conference of the American Booksellers Association, would cease to exist, ending a tradition… 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 »
Hong Kong booksellers face an uncertain future under new national security law
It’s been about a month since China passed the wide-ranging and vaguely worded national security law in Hong Kong in an effort to end the pro-democracy protests that have embroiled… Read more »
New Ferrante book received with enthusiasm abroad
The mysterious anonymous author who goes by the pen name Elena Ferrante has released a new novel in Europe, an event that has been greeted with long lines at recently… Read more »
Barnes & Noble struggles to stay afloat; warehouse workers protest
In a publishing landscape devastated by the novel coronavirus and industry-wide shutdowns, famed chain retailer Barnes and Noble is being hit especially hard. According to Publishers Weekly, the superchain has… Read more »
A documentary about book sellers is here to lift your spirits
The World Health Organization has officially declared COVID-19 a pandemic, the Democratic primary is in free fall, the president of the United States has once again misspelled a basic word,… Read more »
The loyalty of a good bookseller
A couple days ago, Sarah Malley wrote for Popula an in-depth essay about the status of bookstores, booksellers, and the communities surrounding them. Eye-opening that it was, while reading, I… Read more »