It’s not too soon to start planning forr Independent Bookstore Day, especially if you live in the Seattle area. On Saturday April 30, indie bookstore around the country will celebrate the second annual Independent Bookstore Day. In Seattle, we’re building on the success of last year, with another Seattle Bookstore Day passport to local booksellers, and …
Last Sunday, Village Books, family, and friends celebrated the marriage of Paul & Kelly, two Village Books booksellers. Thanks to an article in Shelf Awareness, a feature in Village Books’ electronic newsletter by Lindsey McGuirk, and a wonderful photo of the book-themed cake on facebook that went viral among the northwest indie bookselling community, people …
Shelf Awareness can boast more than 250,000 subscribed readers between two regular newsletters that reach the inboxes of industry professionals and book lovers across the country day after day, but don’t think the staff have forgotten that they are a part of their own local reading community. The Shelfers made their own “Image of the …
