Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association announced an upcoming Zoom education session titled “The Secret Behind Indie Bookstores.” This opportunity will be open to the general public as well as store owners and booksellers from member stores. The panel will address how independent bookstores, once thought to be an endangered business species, are now thriving. How did …
A group of Seattle-area independent booksellers are proud to invite to you to a special virtual event tonight, April 1, 2021 at 6:30 pm Pacific on Facebook. Beloved local authors Garth Stein (The Art of Racing in the Rain and more) and Jonathan Evison (The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving and more) are joining forces to …
Seattle Mystery Bookshop has taken to heart the difficulty of the times and really focused on on some of the survival buzz that’s out there for the consideration of the small indie bookshop. Somewhere down in this announcement they say their new offerings will be nut-free. For now, we’re fairly confident there are nuts somewhere …
“When we got our advanced reading copy of A Very Minor Prophet at Howl’s Bookstore in Portland, Oregon, we were immediately struck by its marketing appeal to local hipsters. For one thing, the cover has a bird on it,” says bookseller Marshall Daniels, “and the inside flap mentions PBR. We didn’t even need to read …
