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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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City of San Francisco steps it up for local booksellers

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Stop the Presses! In what I hope is just the beginning of city and municipal support for independent booksellers all across this land, the City of San Francisco, partnering  with nonprofit Working Solutions and the Small Business Development Center, awarded grants to 11 bookstores. You heard it right. 11 bookstores receiving grants from the city they reside in to keep up the good work. The grants range from $2-12,000 and are as much for the role bookshops play as a social hub then as "simply places to purchase reading material." If  that doesn't seem like a big enough gift from...

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Bruce Lee’s Reading Life

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Who knew that Bruce Lee was known to carry a book with him every where he went and that his spare time was consumed with reading and visiting  bookstores? And that before he went all in with kung fu he even dreamed of owning a used bookstore. The latest installment of The Libraries of Famous Men series at the Art of Manliness is devoted to Bruce Lee and his deep relationship with books and includes this "sampling of Bruce’s favorite authors and most interesting titles." Western Philosophy: Summa Theologica by St. Thomas Aquinas An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume Meditations on...

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A Tale of Two Cities: Amazon opens a bookstore while Indiebound adds a ‘Buy Now’ button

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Photo: Sam Machkovech Here comes the next tremor in the book universe. Amazon.com, the world's largest online bookseller, has opened it's first physical bookshop! Amazon Books has opened in Seattle's University District just a few miles from Amazon headquarters. It's 5,000 square feet with a majority of the space dedicated to the almighty book. By combining new display tactics (all books are face out!),  a largely crowdsourced inventory, and a seamless ebook purchase option Amazon Books is open for business. After all the years Amazon was paving the way to sell books online, completely upending the bookselling and publishing fields in...

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