BTW Articles

13 Jun

Brick & Mortar Books Opens in Washington

Inspired by author Jeff Kinney's bookstore, An Unlikely Story, the Ullom family opened Brick & Mortar Books, a new independent bookstore in Redmond, Washington, earlier this month.

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13 Jun

Cellar Door Books Launches Summer Literary Travelogue Challenge

Cellar Door Books has been using the store’s remaining copies of the Independent Bookstore Day Literary Map of the United States to provide a summer reading challenge for customers.

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06 Jun

SIBA’s Wanda Jewell to Relocate; Linda-Marie Barrett Named Assistant ED

Wanda Jewell, executive director of the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance, is relocating to the West Coast; Linda-Marie Barrett has left Malaprop’s to become assistant executive director.

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07 Jun

Riffraff, a Bookstore/Bar, to Open in Providence

Emma Ramadan and Tom Roberge will open Riffraff, a bookstore/bar, in Providence, Rhode Island’s artsy West Side neighborhood later this year.

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06 Jun

WordsWorth Books & Co. Under New Ownership

WordsWorth Books & Co. in Little Rock, Arkansas, is now under the ownership of former customers Lia Lent and Tom McGowan, who are taking over from retiring owner Jean Cazort.

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06 Jun

ABA at BookExpo: “For Authors: Working With Independent Bookstores”

ABA’s BookExpo education session “For Authors: Working With Independent Bookstores” featured a discussion of best practices for creating events that benefit both the bookstore and the author.

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02 Jun

Hillary Clinton Takes the Stage at BookExpo

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made a special appearance at this year’s BookExpo trade show on Thursday, June 1.

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24 May

“Wildman” Author to Visit Indie Bookstores on Cross-Country Trip to BookExpo

YA author J.C. Geiger is on a 4,300-mile, interactive road trip from Oregon to NYC and BookExpo to promote his debut novel, Wildman, at independent bookstores and to raise money for public libraries.

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18 May

Interabang Books to Open in Dallas in July

Interabang Books, a full-service, independent bookstore with more than 12,000 titles and a special focus on fiction, children’s books, and creative nonfiction, is scheduled to open in Dallas this July.

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24 May

Barbara Theroux of Fact & Fiction to Retire After 40 Years in Bookselling

Barbara Theroux, the founder of Fact & Fiction in Missoula, Montana, is retiring at the end of June, after 40 years in the bookselling business.

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