Before landing at Melville House last month, I had the great good fortune of managing Bank Square Books in Mystic, CT. I left my BSB family in July, to be… Read more »

Posted by Bauman Rare Books on Wednesday, August 15, 2012   Bauman Rare Books in Las Vegas is giving tourists a new way to celebrate their success at the slot machines.… Read more »

On November 26, just after you recover from your Thanksgiving food coma and are ready to enter the kitchen again, a new cookbook store will open in Brooklyn.  The bookstore… Read more »

There’s something new in the realm of publishers testing out bookstore business models. This time it’s German publisher Taschen, who’ve decided to open an upscale bookstore in Hong Kong—the company’s first in Asia—as Denise… Read more »

Between losing its new CEO, Ron Boire, after less than a year of employment (and subsequently paying him $4.8 million in severance) and posting a six-point loss for the first… Read more »

Samer al-Kadri is one of 3 million Syrian refugees now living in Turkey. A year ago, he opened Pages, the first Arabic-language bookstore in Istanbul, and he even has plans to… Read more »

Josh Cook is a man of many talents. He’s a bookseller at the great Porter Square Books, in Somerville, Massachusetts; he’s the author of a brilliant and hilarious thriller, An… Read more »

There’s too much to read. This nagging anxiety afflicts everyone working in/for/around books at some point. And while it’s easy to see how luxurious a complaint it might be, it’s a… Read more »

A year after opening in Madrid, English-language bookstore Desperate Literature has garnered top reviews on Trip Advisor and a glowing recommendation this month from James Blick in The Guardian. With… Read more »

When we last reported on the “Literature Litterer” (aka the Bookdrop Bandit aka the Colophon Coyote), it was still a mystery as to who dumped hundreds of books along the side… Read more »