bookselling

This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast: “What is Energizing to You?”

Featuring Josh Cook, Jordan Kisner, Drew Broussard, and Drew’s Nerdiness

 
By The Lit Hub Podcast   February 21, 2025
The Writing Life

Yes, I’ve Been Selling My Book
on Dating Apps

By Chloé Caldwell  February 10, 2025
Bookselling

Bigoted Bookselling: When the Nazis Opened a Propaganda Bookstore in Los Angeles

By Evan Friss  August 21, 2024
African Literature

How Catalyst and Iskanchi Press Are Bringing African Writers’ Work to a Wider Audience

By Jessica Powers  August 5, 2024
Literary History

The Man Who Created the Trade Paperback

By Michael Castleman  July 18, 2024
The Hub

What does it mean that Barnes & Noble is buying Denver indie Tattered Cover?

By Drew Broussard  June 18, 2024
Reading

How Dyslexia Made Me More Passionate About Reading (and Selling) Books

By Cappy Yarbrough  April 10, 2024
Booksellers

From Local, to Global, to Gone: On the Rise and Fall of Borders Books

By Literary Hub  November 28, 2023
Booksellers

Napoleonic Conspiracy Theories, Unsociable Shabbiness, and More Occupational Hazards of the Second-Hand Book Trade

By Shaun Bythell  December 7, 2022
The Hub

Japanese bookstores are closing at a much faster rate than here in America.

By Jonny Diamond  October 25, 2022
Keen On

Why Good Bookstores Might Not Actually Be “Stores”

By Keen On  March 25, 2022
Indie Bookstores

Emma Straub on Opening Her Bookstore, Books Are Magic

By Emma Straub  December 2, 2021
Retail

Hanif Abdurraqib on What It Was Like to Work at a Chain Bookstore

By Hanif Abdurraqib  October 13, 2021
Booksellers

Notes From a Cairo Bookseller

By Nadia Wassef  October 4, 2021
The Hub

How can independent bookstores begin to pay their booksellers a fair and living wage?

By Jonny Diamond  September 27, 2021
Bookstores

The Brief, Joyous Life of the Sunwise Turn Bookshop

By Joanne O'Sullivan  April 26, 2021
Bookstores

Toward a Definition of Contemporary Bookselling

By Alena Jones  April 7, 2021
The Literary Life

Paul Yamazaki on Fifty Years of Bookselling at City Lights

By The Literary Life  January 29, 2021
Bookselling

Of Progressive Bookselling,
Past and Future

By Lucy Kogler  January 26, 2021
Indie Bookstores

Why I Bought a Bookstore at 29

By Samantha Ladwig  December 7, 2020
Bookselling

It’s Past Time for the Bookselling Industry to Reckon with Its Institutional Racism

By Angela Maria Spring  July 23, 2020
The Hub

You can order today from these black-owned independent bookstores.

By Corinne Segal  June 3, 2020
Book Collection

Inside the ‘Vibrant Intellectual Ecosystem’ of Larry McMurtry’s Home Library

By Nina Freudenberger and Sadie Stein  February 18, 2020
Publishing

Did Amazon Throttle My Sales After I Criticized Them in the New York Times?

By Danny Caine  February 11, 2020
Jane Austen

The Obscure Editions of Jane Austen Novels That Made Her Internationally Known

By Janine Barchas  January 15, 2020
The Hub

Read up on the radical, life-affirming history of LGBTQ bookstores.

By Corinne Segal  October 3, 2019
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