“I think that the independent bookstore experience offers something that Amazon can’t possibly replicate. I really do.” — Jenn Risko, co-founder and publisher of Shelf Awareness We agree. Read more from Jenn Risko’s interview with GeekWire’s Todd Bishop.
Whether The Story of Hong Gildong is the oldest extant Korean prose fiction or the second oldest, whether it was written by poet and statesman Heo Gyun (1569-1618) about a real bandit or whether it’s popular fiction by an anonymous commoner in the second half of the 19th century matters greatly to some. Not so …
reprinted from Shelf Awareness Pro, February 25, 2016 Seattle City of Literature has appointed Stesha Brandon as its interim executive director. Her role will be to strengthen the organization, lead the upcoming bid to join the UNESCO Creative Cities Network, and initiate a comprehensive search for a permanent executive director. Seattle has been invited to …
From Shelf Awareness Pro newsletter, January 4: “Indie Customer Makes ‘Penance, Reparations’ Payment;” In the mail shortly after the Christmas rush, Elliott Bay Book Co., Seattle, Wash., received a check for $94.89. The memo section of the check read: “Voluntary penance and reparations for buying books at A.” General manager Tracy Taylor commented: “While we’ve received …
From the March 10, 2015 edition of Shelf Awareness from March 10, 2015: Today, Erik Larson’s new book, Dead Wake, about the sinking of the Lusitania, um, launches. (We have a lot of information about the book and Larson below.) It’s a striking accomplishment: Dead Wake is the latest of an outstanding series of nonfiction titles …
Shelf Awareness recapped Tuesday’s appearance on the Today Show by Three Cups of Tea author Greg Mortenson. Mortenson has remained out of the spotlight since a 2011 controversy regarding the misappropriation of funds generated by his work for the Central Asia Institute, the Bozeman centered nonprofit he established to build schools in underdeveloped communities in …
The online literary newsletter Shelf Awareness announced its top books for 2013: 10 each for fiction, nonfiction, and kids. Congratulations to Pacific Northwest author Daniel James Brown for the selection of his nonfiction account of the University of Washington crew team’s quest for the gold in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans …
You’re a booklover. You like to be on top of new releases, what’s happening in the industry, and all the buzz about books. If you haven’t already signed up to subscribe to Shelf Awareness, a free booklovers’ e-newsletter, they are offering a great incentive. Shelf Awareness is giving away a free book every day in …
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 …
