I recently contributed an article entitled Occupy Manhattan Storefronts to New York public TV station WNET’s online magazine, Metro Focus. The indie business situation in New York is changing rapidly, and a new report from Center for an Urban Future reveals that the tide is actually turning in our [...]
Bookstore Pop-ups, Hybrids, and Rebels: Why Indie booksellers are leading the movement to support and foster local businesses — A panel discussion with maverick booksellers David Kipen, Andrew Laties, and Josh Spencer on why there is no better time to be in the book business.
….This fun hour-long September 11, 2011 event at Skylight Books [...]
I met AK Press and PM Press co-founder Ramsey Kanaan when he stopped by the Vox Pop booth at the 2005 BEA convention and said he’d read the advance review copy of Rebel Bookseller while riding his exercycle. A few weeks later he wrote a fabulous book review on the AK [...]
Back in early 90s Chicago, I hosted some author events in The Children’s Bookstore and at Printers Row Bookfair to promote the outstanding “Ancient and Living Cultures” educational activity books, written by Mira Bartok and Christine Ronan. I loved the events they created: kids could punch out multicultural design stencils and create cool artworks they’d [...]
Tomorrow I’ll be appearing at Village Books, in Bellingham, Washington. I’ll be part of a panel discussion with Village Books owner, Chuck Robinson, Book Fare Cafe owner, Charles Claassen, and Derek Long, Executive Director of Sustainable Connections. Here’s the guest blogpost I wrote for the occasion, entitled “A Houseful of Books.
Click this link to hear my fun interview with Michael Ray Dresser yesterday evening. We discussed e-books, print-on-demand, bookseller education, the buy-local movement, and the rise/fall/rise of indie bookselling over the past 30 years.
…… “Michael Ray’s show has evolved over the years into an entertaining and thought-provoking [...]
“I met Andrew Laties several years ago at a meeting of the Independent Publishers of New England. We found that we had a common interest in book arts (unusual among publishers who are book lovers but not necessarily knowledgeable about artists’ books) and had a great conversation. I intended to buy a copy of [...]
Thanks to Katalina Gutierrez for these two great photos from last Friday night’s program at Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn, written up thusly by Ron Hogan of industry newsletter Shelf Awareness:
“Christine Onorati, the owner of WORD, Brooklyn, N.Y., is tired of hearing about how bookstores are doomed. ‘Half of all restaurants that [...]
Faced with stiff competition and tight credit, Borders corporation has announced total liquidation. Hundreds of towns will lose their Borders bookstores, even though many individual locations were profitable. The sick branches have destroyed the entire tree.
By contrast, exactly the opposite was occurring when in similarly dire competitive circumstances, in the mid-1990s, two thirds of [...]
Rebel Sell– Holyoke’s Andy Laties, 51, argues that now is the perfect time to open an independent bookshop (yes, really).
By Joel Brown July 17, 2011 With Borders bankrupt and many chains already gone, do you really think it’s wise to open a bookstore, [...]
Released July 19, 2011, the Second Edition of Rebel Bookseller!!
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