An Education
[Advance warning: rant ahead...]
Since early February I have been organising the Scottish book launch for a new title by an award-winning and very popular author who writes books for teenagers. It’s going to be a schools event and when the publisher phoned us up to talk about it we were extremely excited. We were asked [...]
Self Published Authors – before you send me your book bear this in mind…
Ask any bookseller about self-published books and they will groan. Depending on how many self-published books they are asked to stock they will groan and bang their heads on the table. If they are given as many as we are they will groan, bang their heads on the table and demand a stiff drink.
It’s not [...]
Are you IndieBound? We’re Going to Be.
In 2008, the American Booksellers Association (with a membership comprising several hundred independent bookshops) launched their IndieBound programme with the intention of promoting the idea of shopping locally and with independent retailers, starting with bookstores. It’s a brilliant scheme and one which we’ve been watching for a while – we love the material they’ve produced [...]
Will Britain’s Bookstores Survive? We think so.
In this week’s Scottish edition of The Big Issue is a feature about the likely future for brick-and-mortar (as opposed to on-line) bookshops. It draws heavily on an interview with Andrew Bentley-Steed, manager of The Edinburgh Bookshop and you can read it here.
Andrew speaks for all of us when he says that he thinks that [...]