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Sean Doolittle: Independent Bookseller’s MVP

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Last April, Sean Doolittle, the closer for the World Champion Washington Nationals, started sharing on social media what he was reading and the independent bookstores he shopped at during each major league stop. Now, Doolittle has teamed up with the American Booksellers Association (ABA) to become 2020 Indie #BookstoreDay Ambassador. "I'm really looking forward to promoting these incredible local businesses that promote reading and literacy programs and authors and do so much to support their communities!" says Doolittle. Doolittle, you might recall, declined President Trump's invitation to the White House after the Nationals won the World Series because he didn't...

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Booksellers on Film: New documentary set for March release

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What once seemed like an esoteric world now seems essential to our culture: the community of rare book dealers and collectors who, in their love of the delicacy and tactility of books, are helping to keep the printed word alive - New York Film Festival D.W. Young's documentary, The Booksellers, on the antiquarian booksellers of New York, is destined to become a classic account of the modern day book trade. From the preview alone you know that if one possess the bookselling gene or if you have an affinity for the collectible it is a must see. It premiered at...

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The Bookseller “spurred me on”: The deeply troubling Carnegie Library theft

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One was the sole archivist for and head of the rare book room at the Carnegie Library. The other was an antiquarian bookseller and proprietor of Caliban Books. They both recently pleaded guilty for their part in one of the biggest library heists on record, stealing millions of dollars worth of material from the Carnegie library. For pretty much as long as they were at the helm of their respective workplaces Greg Priore and John Schulman were engaged in ongoing criminal activity. That's a whopping 25 years of deceit! Priore, the Carnegie Library archivist, says  ‘I should have never done...

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Shanghai: Pop-up perfection for Hauser and Wirth and a new poetry bookshop

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Pixcell Deer by Kohei Nawa Let's start off the new decade in Shanghai featuring what very well could be one of the coolest pop-up bookshops of the last decade and the opening of a new poetry bookshop. In early 2018, inside the art space - bookshop of Modern Eye in Central Shangai, dongqi Architects created a three-story pavilion for the noted art gallery and publisher, Hauser & Wirth. The space featured publications and other goodies and drew its inspiration from the Granary Shed at the Hauser & Wirth gallery in Somerset, England. The shed is a traditional English structure used...

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Bookseller Revolt: Independents Vacate Abebooks in Solidarity

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Banned Booksellers Week has begun with a bang. David Streitfeld's piece in the New York Times has kicked off what some hope will be a defining moment in the history of online bookselling.  For the week of November 5 to 11, 2018, booksellers around the world will remove their inventory from Abebooks, an Amazon company, in a show of support for their brethren in South Korea, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Russia who were told they can no longer sell on their platform.  Many were angered at the flippant response provided by Abebooks as to why the booksellers were removed claiming...

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