BTW Articles

27 Sep

Bookstores to Honor Pat Conroy With Drive to Fund New Literary Center

Booksellers will honor the late Pat Conroy during the week of October 24 with events and promotions to raise money for the new Pat Conroy Literary Center in Beaufort, South Carolina.

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28 Sep

Phoenix Adaptive Reuse Program Eases the Way for Downtown Development

Since 2008, Phoenix, Arizona’s award-winning Adaptive Reuse Program has been making it easier for developers and small businesses to renovate older buildings for new uses.

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13 Sep

Small Press Profile: John F. Blair, Publisher

John F. Blair, Publisher, an independent publishing house in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, focuses on general trade books about the Southeastern U.S. as well as books written by Southern authors.

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20 Sep

Parnassus to Auction Author-Decorated Piggy Banks to Benefit Booksellers

Parnassus Books will launch an auction in-store and online this Sunday on more than 100 author-decorated piggy banks to help offset medical expenses for a store employee with cancer and to benefit the Book Industry Charitable Foundation.

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20 Sep

Seattle’s Open Books: A Poem Emporium Opens Under New Ownership

Billie Swift, the new owner of Open Books: A Poem Emporium in Seattle, Washington, officially reopened the poetry-only store with a festive party on Saturday, September 17.

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21 Sep

Recent Literary Award Winners and Finalists

Here are some of the literary award winners and finalists announced over the past week.

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16 Sep

A Q&A With Brit Bennett, Author of October’s #1 Indie Next List Pick

Brit Bennett’s debut novel, The Mothers, is “an honest, modern, and triumphant book” that explores the kind of salvation “that comes with self-acceptance and growth,” said Women & Children First’s Jamie Thomas.

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13 Sep

Plan for Bronx Bookstore/Wine Bar Wins $7,500 Award in Business Startup Competition

Noelle Santos, who plans to open The Lit. Bar, a bookstore/wine bar in the South Bronx, has won the $7,500 second place prize in the New York 2016 StartUP! Business Plan Competition.

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07 Sep

Georgia Used/Rare Book Store Branches Out With Hills & Hamlets Bookshop

Josh Niesse and Megan Bell, the owners of Underground Books, a used, rare, and antiquarian bookstore, will open Hills & Hamlets Bookshop next month in the urbanist green living community of Serenbe, in Chattahoochee Hills, Georgia. The new store’s inventory will be predominantly new books.

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06 Sep

IndieCommerce to Offer One-on-One Sessions at Fall Regional Trade Shows

IndieCommerce users and non-users alike will have the opportunity to meet one-on-one with an IndieCommerce staff member at this fall’s regional trade shows.

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