Downtown Seattle was chockablock with indie booksellers in late January, as hundreds of them flew in for the American Booksellers Association’s ninth annual Winter Institute, where they got to schmooze with authors, attend educational panels, meet with publishing reps, and best of all, talk to each other. Maybe it was the uncharacteristically fine weather that …
A recent email newsletter from Village Books reminded me about a program booksellers around the country are participating in to help showcase debut books: Indies Introduce. The American Booksellers Association has posted videos of debut authors introducing their own books, like actress and author Octavia Spencer, above, introducing her chapter book for kids, Randi Rhodes, Ninja …
Last week, hundreds of booksellers, authors, and publishers converged on Seattle for the American Booksellers Association’s ninth annual Winter Institute (Wi9), an industry celebration and education opportunity. Was your favorite local bookseller there? Enjoy some photos from the Elliott Bay Book Company-hosted opening ceremonies to get a taste of the spirit of the event.
The playing dirty metaphors have graduated to outright war-tinged with the news of Amazon’s discount onslaught of recent days. (See Saturday’s unscheduled [read emergency] News issue from Shelf Awareness.) Whatever you might call it, a Blitzkrieg or scorched earth tactic, it amounts to a force that bricks-and-mortar bookstores—big chains and mom and pops alike—cannot hope …
Ten years ago, when we gathered at Elliott Bay Book Company in Pioneer Square in Seattle to toast the store’s 30th anniversary, owner Peter Aaron said he would see us all at the 40th anniversary party. This weekend, at Elliott Bay’s new home on Capitol Hill, hundreds of booksellers, authors, and community supporters gathered for …
It was announced yesterday that Amazon has worked out a deal to purchase the online book sharing network Goodreads. That’s right, when Amazon takes the reigns later this year, your Goodreads account email and reading profile belong to them. It was just last year that Goodreads moved to an Ingram database from Amazon because of …
