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Circana’s Q1 US Print Report: Romance, Romantasy Lead Adult Fiction

The first quarter of 2025 has some softer numbers than the same period last year, partly because of a ‘late Easter’ on this year’s calendar. By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson Adult Fiction Leads US…
https://publishingperspectives.com/2025/04/circanas-q1-us-print-report-romance-romantasy-lead-adult-fiction/

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Publishing Perspectives · 1dCircana's Q1 US Print Report: Romance, Romantasy Lead Adult Fiction - Publishing PerspectivesThe first quarter of 2025 has some softer numbers than the same period last year, partly because of a ‘late Easter’ on this year’s calendar. By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson Adult Fiction Leads US Print Fiction Sales in Q1 drop of 1 percent in the United States’ market’s print book sales leads the report released today (April 21) by ...

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Ingram’s Lightning Source Sharjah Partners With Saudi Arabia’s Rushd

The Sharjah SPC Free Zone-based Ingram Lightning Source installation opens a collaboration with Saudi Arabia's Rushd Bookstore program.
https://publishingperspectives.com/2025/04/ingrams-lightning-source-sharjah-partners-with-saudi-arabias-rushd/

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Publishing Perspectives · Apr 10Ingram's Lightning Source Sharjah Partners With Saudi Arabia's RushdThe Sharjah SPC Free Zone-based Ingram Lightning Source installation opens a collaboration with Saudi Arabia's Rushd Bookstore program.

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Bodour Al Qasimi: Booksellers ‘Strengthening Their Positions’

Bodour Al Qasimi highlights booksellers' 'strategic thinking, financial literacy, digital fluency, customer insight, community leadership.'…
https://publishingperspectives.com/2025/04/bodour-al-qasimi-opens-sharjah-booksellers-conference/

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Publishing Perspectives · Apr 7Bodour Al Qasimi: Booksellers 'Strengthening Their Positions'Bodour Al Qasimi highlights booksellers' 'strategic thinking, financial literacy, digital fluency, customer insight, community leadership.'

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Sharjah’s 2025 Booksellers Conference Opens Today

More than 661 booksellers, publishers, and distributors convene on Monday morning (April 7) at Sharjah Booksellers Conference.
The post Sharjah’s 2025 Booksellers Conference Opens Today appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
https://publishingperspectives.com/2025/04/sharjahs-2025-booksellers-conference-opens-today/

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Publishing Perspectives · Apr 6Sharjah's 2025 Booksellers Conference Opens TodayMore than 661 booksellers, publishers, and distributors convene on Monday morning (April 7) at Sharjah Booksellers Conference.

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Sharjah Announces Details of Its Fourth Annual Booksellers Conference

The Sharjah Booksellers Conference in its 2025 iteration is focused on trends and issues in international publishing.
https://publishingperspectives.com/2025/03/sharjah-announces-details-of-its-fourth-annual-booksellers-conference/

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Publishing Perspectives · Mar 25Sharjah Announces Its Fourth Annual Booksellers ConferenceThe Sharjah Booksellers Conference in its 2025 iteration is focused on trends and issues in international publishing.

Steven D. Brewer @stevendbrewer@wandering.shop

Trying to read the tea leaves, or maybe perform divination with entrails, to understand the mysteries of the Amazon book rank. https://stevendbrewer.com/inscrutable-amazon #books #bookselling

Assoc for Scottish Literature @scotlit@mastodon.scot

“Coming Out”: In conversation with Lavender Menace
5 Feb, National Library of Scotland at Kelvinhall, Glasgow – free

Join the Lavender Menace bookshop co-founder Sigrid Nielsen & other members of the community group for a showing of the 1983 documentary film “Coming Out”.

https://www.nls.uk/whats-on/coming-out/

National Library of ScotlandComing OutJoin us at the National Library of Scotland in Glasgow for a screening of the 1983 documentary 'Coming Out' followed by an exploration of the Lavender Menace archive.

#Scottish #literature #archives

Fictionable is moving @fictionable@lor.sh

"I don't argue for not selling certain books – I argue for not stocking them."

Josh Cook quoted in Dan Sinykin's (excellent) review of The Bookshop by Evan Friss:

https://thebaffler.com/latest/bookselling-out-sinykin

#books #reading #writing #publishing #bookshops #bookselling #bookstores #bookstodon @bookstodon

The Baffler · Oct 16, 2024Bookselling Out | Dan Sinykin“The Bookshop” tells the story of American bookstores in thirteen types. Its true subject is not how bookstore can survive, but how they should be.

J. Alan Henning @jalanhenning@dice.camp

I couldn't believe this Barnes & Noble had only two bookcases of science-fiction books. They had 17 (!) bookcases of mysteries. #bookselling #scienceFiction

two bookshelves full of science fiction paperbacks, with notecards from employees recommending 7 of the books

Randall's Books @RandallsBooks@mastodon.world

#Books shipping to new homes this morning.

A hardcover exhibition catalog entitled 'Esteban Vicente'. This show took place at the Ameringer McEnery Yohe gallery in Manhattan. A detail of an abstract painting covers the front board in shades of deep orange, black and gray and gold. The name of the artist appears over it in light gray letters.

A book entitled 'Jack Goldstein and the CalArts Mafia', written by Richard Hertz. On a white background the titles are printed sideways in large letters in shades of green, blue and brown.

A paperback from 1959 entitled 'The Masters'. The author is C. P. Snow. Titles are in white and black on a warm gray background. The cover illustration by Edward Corey shows five mature men in coats and ties, standing around. Their clothing is in black, white, gray and gold. The oldest-looking one appears to be speaking. The rest seem to be listening to him. One of the men has a quizzical expression on his face.

An art book by artist Bernard Buffet. It has a red front board. The French title is "L' Enfer de Dante" (Dante's Inferno). No illustration appears on the front, but the large black titles are in the artist's own script.

#BookSelling #bookstodon #ArtBook

Randall's Books @RandallsBooks@mastodon.world

#Books shipping to new homes this morning.

A softcover book entitled 'The Continuing Presence of Walt Whitman: The Life After The Life', edited by Robert K Martin. Front cover has a copper colored background with a repeated Warhol-style silkscreen image of Walt Whitman in turquoise blue

A book in horizontal format entitled 'Donald Weler: Architect, written by Patrick McGrew. It is published by the Palm Springs Preservation Foundation. Cover shows the a geometric zig-zag roofline and upper floor windows a modernist building.

A book about astrology entitled 'Saturn: A New Look at an Old Devil', written by Liz Greene. On a yellow cover a large engraved roundel is filled with a personified image of Saturn. He is holding a large chalice in one hand and a lighted lamp in the other. There is a plain triangular shape behind him. Behind his head there is a fiery sun and a crescent moon shape. Floating near him is a dragon-like beast and curling snakes, and branches with fruit.

#bookstodon #BookSelling #WaltWhitman

Randall's Books @RandallsBooks@mastodon.world

#Books shipping to new homes this morning.

A book entitled 'Come West and See', a collection of short stories by Maxim Loskutoff. The bright yellow cover contains an image of a large grizzly bear standing on its hind legs. The titles are arranged around the image.

A book from 1913, 'Under the Sky in California', by Charles Francis Saunders. The front board shows a landscape in silhouette. Hills with green trees in the foreground with a hint of a sandy desert in the background, and a palm tree.

An interior design book with the title Maison: Christian Liagre. The titles on the jacket appear on a series of wide stripes in colored leather - in shades of blue, gold, orange, black, gray and white.

Book entitled 'Beautyway: A Navaho Ceremonial (Bollingen Series LIII)'. On a sand-colored background a diagram of 4 symmetrical circles appear around a much larger one; at its center one notices that the circle is a coiled snake. Navajo texts are recorded and translated by Father Berard Haile and Maud Oakes.

#BookSelling #bookstodon #ShortStories

Randall's Books @RandallsBooks@mastodon.world

Books shipping to new homes this morning.

A book entitled 'The Four Books of Architecture' by Andrea Palladio. Without a dust jacket, the titles appear on the light blue front board which has a small printed image affixed to it, showing architectural details as drawn by the Renaissance architect Palladio.

A book from the late 1970s by Cril Payne, entitled 'Deep Cover: An FBI Agent Infiltrates the Radical Underground'. Titles are in blue and gold on a black background. The only decoration is an image of an ancient two-faced silver coin (perhaps the mythical god Janus).

A photography book by William Clayton, published by Twelvetrees Press, entitled 'Jazz'. A black dust jacket with the titles in white. Cover is not illustrated.

A 1964 paperback copy of 'My Family and Other Animals' by zoologist Gerald Durrell. The colorful cover art shows a stylized green island with numerous oversize animals on it - a goat, owl, turtle, lizard, beetle and scorpion. In the foreground are two men in a row-boat. Plus the yellow house and the pink villa and the author's mother waving from the shoreline. A leaping dolphin and sea gull complete the scene.

#books #bookstodon #BookSelling

Randall's Books @RandallsBooks@mastodon.world

#Books shipping to new homes this morning.

A book entitled Fred Allen's Letters. The title's typeface is in red and resembles a typewriter-style font. The old-time humorist and radio host Fred Allen is pictured in a caricature by Al Hirshfeld, sitting at his typewriter with mounds of paper in the background. He's depicted wearing a visor and holding rose-colored glasses in one hand while scratching his temple. He's shown with pursed lips and many bags under his eyes.

A French-language children's book entitled 'Le Moulin a Paroles' (the Word Mill). The author is Nicolas Bianco-Levrin. The illustrated cover has a bright yellow background, and shows a sort of old-fashioned crank-top grinder device which resemblers an antique coffee mill. It has legs and is walking along a dirt road, but stopped at the top of a hill. Random letters of the alphabet are emanating from it and floating into the sky. The title of the book also appears to be curling forth from the illustration.

A book entitled Soda, Clay and Fire, about ceramics and ceramic firing. A how-to book for potters. The author is Gail Nichols, a ceramic artist. Cover is a detail of the surface of ceramic in shades of brown .

A Japanese art book: Hiroshige: The Fifty-three Stages of the Tokaido. Photo shows the cover which is a detail of one of the prints, showing a hill and the artist's signature, against a white sky. Other colors used are grey, blue and green.

#bookstodon #BookSelling #letters

Randall's Books @RandallsBooks@mastodon.world

#Books and vintage #SheetMusic shipping to new homes this morning.

A book entitled Murmurs of Earth: The Voyager Interstellar Record, by Cal Sagan and others. On a black background, three orbs are shown - the earth from space, a smaller planet and in between a large golden orb with diagrams illustrating the mission of the Voyager space probe.

A book entitled The Faith of A Heretic, by philosopher Walter Kaufmann. The title is displayed in large red letters across the cover. The author's name is in smaller black print. In the top corner are three questions: What can I believe? How should I live?, and What do I hope?

An 1986 exhibition catalog for a show of super-realist paintings by American artist Richard Maury, Entitled Richard Maury: Recent Paintings, it was produced by the Wunderlich Gallery in New York. A die-cut cover is decorated with a rounded gold arch, revealing a self-portrait of the artist in an interior. He is wearing a turquoise sweater a brown cloak and a black hat. He is holding up small, dark coin-sized object decorated with an emblem.

A piece of sheet music in monochrome red, from the early career of singer-actress Liza Minelli. The song title, printed in black, is 'What Do You Think I Am?' It was written by Hugh Martin and Ralph Lane. It was published by Chappell & Company in Sydney, Australia in 1963. The youthful singer is shown looking up with a bright smile.

#BookSelling #bookstodon #space

Randall's Books @RandallsBooks@mastodon.world

#Books shipping to new homes this morning.

A guide book entitled Poland, from the 1960s. Cover photo in black & white shows a young woman's smiling face. Title is in red.

A book photography book called The French Cat, by Rachel Hale. Color photo on the dust jacket shows a tabby mix cat with white face and paws, looking lazily at the camera from an antique armchair.

A folding exhibition announcement for a 1968 retrospective of the work of American artist Paul Cadmus. A pencil self-portrait of the artist is on the front cover. Beneath the drawing is the artist's last name in black letters,

#BookSelling #bookstodon #travel

Randall's Books @RandallsBooks@mastodon.world

#Books and vintage #SheetMusic shipping to new homes this morning.

A book about the work of African-American architect Paul R. Williams from the series Master Architects of Souther California. Cover photo in black & white shows a large stately house with two large chimneys.

A book entitled Automobile and Culture. The color photograph on the cover shows a detail of a classic car's red tail light with its chrome surround.

A piece of sheet music from 1968 called Indian Lake, which was written by Tony Romeo. It was a minor hit for the family band the Cowsills, who appear in a on the colorful cover photo, cavorting on what looks like an amusement park structure.

An old piece of sheet music from the Ragtime era (published in 1917), entitled Them Dog Gon'd Triflin' Blues. The writer was Will E. Skidmore. The cover illustration shows a smiling red-haired lady holding a fan. Her face is partially covered by it. Above her head the fanciful titles are illustrated with little dachshund dogs crawling in and out of the O's and the D in the phrase 'Don Gon'd.

#bookstodon #BookSelling #architecture

LordWoolamaloo @LordWoolamaloo@mastodon.scot

Delighted to learn our small but mighty bookshop, @TheEdinburghBookshop is again on the shortlist for best Indy bookshop in Scotland https://www.thebookseller.com/awards/the-british-book-awards?tab=independent-bookshop-of-the-year

We won last year, and have won a couple of times before, which was fabulous. And even nicer because we're sharing the list with a lot of great Indy bookselling chums all around the country.

#books #livres #bookshops

Randall's Books @RandallsBooks@mastodon.world

#Books shipping to new homes this morning.

#bookstodon #BookSelling #memoir #authors #P.G.Wodehouse #JeanCocteau #Beatles #music #popmusic #RussianArtist #artbook

Book cover of Author! Author!, a memoir by P.G. Wodehouse. Cover shows a bright orange background. In the center is a photo of the author, who is smiling.

Book entitled The Difficulty of Being, by French author Jean Cocteau. The title is spelled in brightly colored letters on a black background. Each word in the title is a different color.

A small mass-market paperback about The Beatles from the early 1960s. It was written by their manager Brian Epstein and is entitled A Cellarful of Noise. The four Beatles appear on the cover.

A large format softcover Russian art book printed in Leningrad. It is titled Petrov-Vodkin. No author is credited.
A work by the artist, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, appears in color on the front cover. A Russian peasant mother holds her nursing baby on her lap in a rustic interior.

Randall's Books @RandallsBooks@mastodon.world

#books shipping to new homes this morning.

A book entitled New York 1930: Architecture and Urbanism Between the Two World Wars A large black & white photo shows the New York skyline in winter in 1930, looking up from Central Park. Snow is in the foreground.

A book cover titled Museum of Chora: Mosaics and Frescoes. Square format in rich gold, yellow, red and blue. An impressive large mosaic depicts the Virgin Mary with the infant Jesus.

#BookSelling #bookstodon #philosophy

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