Celebrating Independent Bookstore Day
Welp, Independent Bookstore Day looks a little different this year for everyone—not just for us at the Melville House Bookshop. But that doesn’t make it any less important. While people… Read more »
Threadbare Theatre will adapt “Moby-Dick” for the stage… or a boat?
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 »
Here’s what’s happening across the country on Indie Bookstore Day
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 »
Indie bookstores receive final round of 2014 grants from James Patterson
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 moves out of Midtown, like the rest of the NY book world
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 opens in Jersey City
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 »
Independent bookstores doing better than ever in 2012
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 »
For love or for money: Opening a bookstore
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 »
Amazon does not own long form journalism
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 »
Amazon ebook withdrawal: an author’s perspective
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 »