This week it became official: Mary Gay Shipley has sold That Bookstore in Blytheville, in Blytheville, Arkansas, to Grant Hill, effective January 2, 2013.
Several ABA member bookstores affected by last week’s hurricane are still working towards recovery. Among them are Bank Square Books, which has been closed due to severe flooding since last Monday, and New Jersey’s BookTowne, which has been closed for 10 days due to power failure.
With the help of the Bookstore Training Group of Paz & Associates, Left Bank Books in St. Louis, Missouri, has a new look in time for the holiday season.
Books & Books to celebrate 30th anniversary; Greenlight launches signed first editions club; Books of Wonder kicks off fundraising campaign; Busboys and Poets opens bookstore in Hyattsville; Bookin’ It’s Hansen wins poetry awards
Books on Broad opened on June 12 in Camden, South Carolina, and owners Bill Funderburk and his wife, state Rep. Laurie Slade Funderburk, are happy to be a part of the downtown’s revitalization project.
ABFFE President Chris Finan reflects on the 30th anniversary of Banned Books Week earlier this month, an event that was definitely “not your grandmother’s celebration of the freedom to read.”
In Black Dog & Leventhal’s My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read Shop, author Rick Bragg pays tribute to his favorite bookstore, Alabama Booksmith, and his favorite bookseller, Jake Reiss.
