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Three Percent #67: The Tom Podcast
From the choice of the opening song—“Royals” by Lorde—to the main topic of great midwestern bookstores and Wisconsin’s beer culture, this podcast is All About Tom. And it’s fantastic. Mostly because we get to talk about a lot of great bookstores. Some of the stores mentioned in this ...
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Walking Tour of NY Independent Bookstores
Based on the response to their online walking tour of NY indies, The Millions are taking this idea physical and have organized a real walking tour of independent bookstores in New York. (Or at least six of them.) On Saturday, May 2nd at 11am, participants will meet at Three Lives (154 W. 10th at Waverly Place) and go from ...
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Indies Choice Book Awards
OK, so the finalists for the 2009 Indies Choice Awards have been announced. The awards—voted on by American Booksellers Association members, with the winners announced at BookExpo—cover seven categories: Best Indie Buzz Book (fiction), Best Conversation Starter (nonfiction), Best Author Discovery (debut), Best New ...
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The Life and Times of Cody's Bookstore
Stacy Perman of Business Week wrote an excellent article about the downfall of Cody’s Books in San Francisco. Cody’s was always one of Dalkey’s greatest accounts (and probably would’ve been for Open Letter had they been around when we started selling our books), in part because of a bookseller name ...
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Independent Bookselling: Struggles and Bad News
As discussed in detail on Ed Nawotka’s blog, Paperback Dreams is a documentary coming out this fall that focuses on the struggles of two West Coast independent bookstores: Kepler’s and Cody’s. The film, which will run on PBS stations starting in November, begins with the opening of Kepler’s near ...
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Perfect RTW Bookstore
Thanks to Literary Rapture for bringing Idlewild Books to our attention. According to its sparse website, Idlewild is a beautiful new store and event space near Union Square, is New York City’s only bookshop specializing in travel and international literature. A bookstore organized by country rather than ...
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Labyrinth Becomes Book Culture
From GalleyCat: Last night, Chris Doeblin sent out an email announcing that the bookstore he co-founded on the outskirts of Columbia University in 1996 is changing its name from Labyrinth Books to Book Culture. As long as it’s not closing its doors, they can call the store whatever they want in my opinion. ...
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