Why, yes, that is Stephen Colbert promoting Portland independent bookstore Powell’s on his show, The Colbert Report! On June 4, Colbert welcomed award-winning, Indies First-inspiring PNW author and bookstore champion Sherman Alexie to his show to discuss the Amazon/Hachette situation. (To watch the clip, click here.) Alexie did a tremendous job describing California, a novel by …
The indie publisher of the day is Barefoot Books, a Massachusetts-based indie that proudly states, “At the heart of everything we do are our core values: imagine, explore, create, connect, and give back.” According to co-founder and CEO Nancy Traversy, in an article shared by Shelf Awareness, Amazon’s automated publisher services couldn’t quite grok the …
Amazon announced yesterday that Seattle super-librarian Nancy Pearl has signed a contract with the company to launch the Book Lust Rediscoveries series. Amazon’s press release reads: “Book Lust Rediscoveries will publish approximately six books a year and will be made available for sale in print editions via Amazon.com and as audiobooks via Amazon.com and Audible.com, at bookstores, wholesalers and …
Today we checked in with Third Street Books’ Sylla McClellan to see how the weekend went following last Wednesday’s “Ditch Amazon” decree. McClellan says: “We had four people bring in their closed accounts – which was great. But more importantly, we had a lot of positive conversations with people about it (and great sales numbers …
Sylla McClellan is Past President of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association and a scrapper of a small business owner (she runs two in McMinnville, Oregon). And she’s not going to take it anymore. If you are on her newsletter mailing list, today you received the following declaration. After you read this humdinger of a teaser, …
