The Unlikely Success of a Strange Alabama Bookstore

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-unlikely-success-of-a-strange-alabama-bookstore

The pseudonym and autonym libraries 1894
Poster showing a woman approaching a bookstore.

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https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2002695277/

#TomGauld on #librarians v #booksellers – #cartoon | #Books | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/books/picture/2025/nov/23/tom-gauld-on-librarians-v-booksellers-cartoon

#Humour

Today's cartoon by @tomgauld.bsky.social - on point as I head down to do a shift at Edinburgh Community Bookshop...

"Librarians v booksellers."

#bookstodon #booksellers #librarians #books

https://www.theguardian.com/books/picture/2025/nov/23/tom-gauld-on-librarians-v-booksellers-cartoon?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

"There's... er..." My new assistant bookseller faltered.

Over by the window, an open book hovered. As I looked, a page turned.

I picked up my hag stone and peered through it.

"Just a ghost. That's a relief."

"What else..."

"Imps, devils, people with invisibility spells. The last are worst."

#TootFic #MicroFiction #SmallStories #BookSellers

We have reached the point of the year where that great, old friend of booksellers and librarians everywhere, the cardigan, has made its first appearance of the season.

Remain calm, this is perfectly normal.

#books #bookshops #booksellers #livres #librairies #cardigan

This...

"Because Amazon won’t police its offerings, you’re getting shafted (and so am I)"

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/because-amazon-wont-police-its-offerings

Followed by this...

https://bookshop.org/p/books/coming-up-short-a-memoir-of-my-america-robert-b-reich/74502451024fd083

#bookshop #RobertReich #booksellers #books #economics #usa #uk

Waterstones opens 10 new stores a year as younger adults embrace reading

Bookshop chain says people are keen to escape their screens and says rise in sales is partly down to BookTok Times may be tough on the high street but the bookseller Waterstones is enjoying strong sales as younger adults embrace reading…
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/aug/17/waterstones-strong-sales-younger-adults-book-buying

#Waterstones #Booksellers #Retailindustry #Publishing #Books
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