This week, ABA CEO Oren Teicher offers both perspective on recent events and resources to help member bookstores share with customers facts about Amazon that tell a story they might not know.
The town of Las Vegas, New Mexico, is welcoming a new owner to local bookshop Tome on the Range, a 17-year-old fixture in the southwestern community. Noemi de Bodisco assumed ownership in June, taking over for founder and owner Nancy Colalillo.
WORD bookstore is opening its second location in mid-September in Jersey City, New Jersey, and will feature an eclectic mix of titles, a welcoming event space, and a café serving Stumptown coffee.
On August 18, Melville House will be leading a marathon reading of Christopher Morley’s The Haunted Bookshop while taking members of the literary community on a walking bookstore tour.
On Wednesday, July 31, a federal judge ruled that the Federal Reserve did not follow Congress’ intent when it implemented swipe fee reforms required by the Durbin Amendment of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act in June 2011. The Fed had imposed a swipe fee cap of $0.21, but the judge’s decision is expected to force the Fed to lower swipe fee rates even more.
The strong reaction of independent booksellers and other Main Street advocates to President Obama’s visit to an Amazon warehouse in Tennessee to deliver an address on job creation was reported in media outlets across the country.
Five e-book promotions were recently added to the IndieCommerce Publisher Promotions page. Categories include back to school reading, crazy artists, summer relaxation, and gardening.
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