During the 2016 In-Store Convention Kick-Off on March 5, comic book stores all over the U.S. will show an exclusive livestream of panels and interviews with comics creators, and sell associated limited edition products. Click here to search for a store in your … Continue reading
By James H. Burns: Can there be a secret bookstore? One with over 40,000 volumes, many at a buck a piece? And with over one million comic books? And magazines, and games, and toys….? And just oodles of items that … Continue reading
Get a head start on your 2015 Worldcon shopping in OffWorld Designs’ Sasquan store. There are numerous designs, multiple styles of shirts, a hoodie, jacket and a cap. (The shirts go up to 5X. Good thinking there.) Shirt options include the … Continue reading
The end is near at Brand Bookstore in Glendale – the shop closes this month. Meanwhile, their closing sale offers 70% off and no tax on all used books. They’re also selling bookshelves for $10 each. Noriaki Nakano, who manages … Continue reading
On May 22 HarperCollins will publish Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary by J.R.R. Tolkien. The existence of the translation has been known for decades and Tolkien’s 1936 lecture “Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics” revolutionized the academic study of the … Continue reading
I’ve been conditioned by the movie You’ve Got Mail to assume any announcement made by a bookstore around Christmastime will be a sad one. But not this year! Greenwich Village’s Strand Book Store reported record sales on the Monday before … Continue reading
Whimsic Alley is a Los Angeles store that identifies itself closely with the Harry Potter brand – too closely to please Warner Bros. The Los Angeles Times reports the studio has filed suit in U.S. District Court to stop Whimsic … Continue reading
The provincial government of Quebec is looking at a proposal that would prevent deep discounting of new books as a means of helping independent booksellers survive reports Publishers Weekly — In Canadian publishing, all eyes are on Quebec. That’s because the province is … Continue reading
Baen Books are now available for purchase from Apple’s iBookstore. Until recently, the publisher’s ebooks could be purchased only at Baenebooks.com. Then in December, Baen began offering ebooks through the Amazon Kindle store. Whether purchased directly from Baen, or Amazon … Continue reading