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Cory Doctorow Teams Up With McNally Jackson

Science fiction writer and cultural critic Cory Doctorow is self-publishing his newest short story collection using McNally Jackson’s Espresso Book Machine. Doctorow’s With a Little Help can be purchased in POD format at the New York City bookstore, or via the store website or Doctorow’s Boing Boing blog.

“I’m really excited to see how this works out, as there are plenty of amazing stores in the USA with Espresso machines with whom I’d be delighted to make similar arrangements,” Doctorow said on Boing Boing.

The McNally Jackson site notes that “the book comes with four covers, and in addition to Doctorow’s fun stories of near-future dissidence and extreme punctuation it contains an appendix detailing the results, up to this point, of the experiment: the finances, how many books sold, and advice for other authors considering the same [POD] process.” The book is priced at $10.

The Drama Bookshop Receives Tony Award

Congratulations to The Drama Bookshop in New York City, which has received a 2011 Tony Award for Excellence in Theater. The bookstore, owned by Rozanne Seelen and Allen Hubby, has served the city for more than 90 years with a comprehensive inventory of theater books, scripts, and librettos.

Union Ave. Books Celebrates Grand Opening

On June 1, Flossie McNabb, co-owner of the former Carpe Librum Booksellers, and business partner Melinda Meador, an attorney, opened Union Ave. Books in downtown Knoxville, Tenneesee’s Daylight Building, a recently renovated space, which is on the National Register of Historic Places.

From Thursday through Sunday of this week, the store will host a grand-opening celebration, featuring music, food, readings, and activities for children.

In addition to having a location that will draw plenty of pedestrian traffic, McNabb told KnoxNews.com that she believes “combining a new focus on used books with a Carpe Librum-style events calendar of children’s programs, author readings, and book groups will mean success for the new store.”

The Morris Book Shop to Expand

In the fall, The Morris Book Shop in Lexington, Kentucky, will relocate to the city’s Chevy Chase shopping district. The new location, which is about 1,000 square feet larger than the existing store, will provide more event opportunities.

“We’re really excited about this move,” said owner Wyn Morris, who along with store manager Hao Houlihan is a founding member of Local First Lexington. Morris is looking forward to being closer to the center of town, as well as the University of Kentucky campus.