Category Archives: Bookstore Tourism

How to help indie bookshops survive

Posted on March 16, 2020 by Brian D. Butler

The new coronavirus presents a real challenge to bookstores. Here are some ways you can help keep your local bookstore open—during the pandemic and after—without leaving home.  1.  Pre-Order Books Online It’s likely that you know a book you want is … Continue reading →

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Why Real Books Are Great

Posted on March 8, 2020 by Brian D. Butler

h/t to Strand Books NYC  

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Bookstore Tourism: Istanbul

Posted on March 2, 2020 by Brian D. Butler

The recently opened Kitap Koala bookstore in Istanbul’s Şişli district offers 30,000 books to its customers with the commitment to give all of its profits to animal shelters and cover the medical needs of stray animals all over Turkey. The … Continue reading →

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Coming to a bookstore near you

Posted on March 1, 2020 by Brian D. Butler

These days most of us are all to familiar with autonomous robots. Whether it’s the helpful little vacuum cleaner scurrying underfoot or the creepy robotic towers wandering and beeping around the supermarket doing what nobody seems to know, robots are … Continue reading →

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The East Village is not dead (just different)

Posted on February 26, 2020 by Brian D. Butler

Book Club  is a new bookstore and wine bar in the infamous Alphabet City neighborhood of Lower Manhattan’s East Village. While I will grant that the East Village is not the bizzaro-crazy place of my feckless youth, its demise is … Continue reading →

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Avoid the Day: Bookstore Tourism

Posted on February 17, 2020 by Brian D. Butler

Avoid the Day Bookstore & Cafe began life as an itinerant pop-up about two years ago  around the Rockaway peninsula in the New York City Borough of Queens. Last week, co-owners Jianna and Jason Heurer manifested their shared dream to … Continue reading →

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It’s Always Caturday at this bookshop

Posted on February 15, 2020 by Brian D. Butler

Otis & Clementine’s Books & Coffee is a bookshop and cafe that always has a few visiting foster kittens in stock, all of whom are up for adoption. The book shop, just outside of Halifax in Nova Scotia, Canada, has … Continue reading →

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Welcome to Bookshop!

Posted on February 2, 2020 by Brian D. Butler

Last week, a new online book retailer model launched the beta version of its innovative site.Indeed, Bookshop.org has gone live with the mission to “financially support independent bookstores and give back to the book community.” Founded by the publisher and entrepreneur … Continue reading →

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Book a bed at the BookBar

Posted on January 31, 2020 by Brian D. Butler

The next time that I visit Denver, I will definitely be staying at the BookBar’s BookBed. The AirBnB rental is a spacious 1896 one-bedroom apartment located above popular book store and wine bar, BookBar. This vacation rental is owned by … Continue reading →

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Bookstore Lies We tell Ourselves

Posted on January 22, 2020 by Brian D. Butler

 

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