Bookstore Materials for BTBA 2010
Following on the last post about McNally Jackson, the other thing that I e-mailed to the booksellers on our mailing list was this pdf brochure/flyer that anyone can print out and use in promoting this year’s BTBA finalists. This can be printed double-sided (just make sure to go into print settings first and indicate ...
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An Echo of My Post about Schuler
From Charlotte Higgins’s piece in The Guardian about shopping in her local Borders: Walk in and you are bombarded with the visual cacophony of three-for-two offers, TV chefs and Parky’s biography. Of course they have a wide selection of books, but the place is such a jungle – Aldi is surely more of a ...
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Great Bookstore in The Netherlands
The Guardian has a great article about a bookstore in central Maastricht, one that Jonathan Glancey refers to as “what must be one of the finest bookshops in the world.” The sheer scale of the black steel bookstack was necessary for two reasons. One was that a spread of shelves along and across the nave ...
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What's Up With Romania?
From Literary Saloon: We missed their announcement from a few weeks ago, but Jennifer Schuessler recently mentioned it at their Paper Cuts weblog: The New York Times Book Review is now available in Romanian, the only international edition of the NYTBR, licensed to Editura Univers and with a print run of 40,000 to start ...
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Best Bookstores in the World?
Last Friday, The Guardian ran a nice feature on the most beautiful bookstores in the world, including Livraria Lello in Porto (pictured above) and El Ateneo a Three Percent favorite. (I’m hoping to have the chance to visit this store during the upcoming Buenos Aires Editor’s Week sponsored by Fundacion TyPA . . ...
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Now That's a Bookstore
From Maud Newton’s ongoing series on independent bookstores comes a post from Justine Larbalestier about El Ateneo of Buenos Aires’ Barrio Norte, which looks simply amazing. Their website actually has a short video tour of the store that’s worth drooling over. Why can’t we have stores like this ...
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Independent Bookstore Feature
Not sure why we didn’t cotton on to this sooner, but Maud Newton’s running a fantastic series of articles on independent bookstores this month. So far, she’s had: Jim Hanas write on Burke’s Book Store in Memphis, TN; Mark Athitakis on DC’s Books for America; Sean Carman on D.C.’s ...
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