East Bay Booksellers
@ebbooksellers.bsky.social
We are a bookstore -- a good one, we think! -- selling new books -- good ones, we hope! -- in Oakland, California.
December 6, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Alarm! Sound the alarm! Membership for Stationery Club 2026 is now open! The retention rate for this limited edition subscription service is high, and they go quick!
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December 6, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Alarm! Sound the alarm! Membership for Stationery Club 2026 is now open! The retention rate for this limited edition subscription service is high, and they go quick!
www.ebbooksellers.com/stationery-c...
www.ebbooksellers.com/stationery-c...
The holiday season is when we are often asked “How long have you been here?” and we get to answer, “Do you want the short answer or the long one?”
December 5, 2025 at 5:48 PM
The holiday season is when we are often asked “How long have you been here?” and we get to answer, “Do you want the short answer or the long one?”
The moon tonight compels you, reject the deadening effect of the corporate would-be masters, who would have you chasing your tails & trends! Lean toward your curiosities! Give of your passions. This is the moon talking, not me.
December 5, 2025 at 5:20 AM
The moon tonight compels you, reject the deadening effect of the corporate would-be masters, who would have you chasing your tails & trends! Lean toward your curiosities! Give of your passions. This is the moon talking, not me.
If you have an order or hold at a bookstore, I reckon right about now is when they’re REALLY hoping you come and get it.
December 3, 2025 at 9:07 PM
If you have an order or hold at a bookstore, I reckon right about now is when they’re REALLY hoping you come and get it.
You lot (assuming you're a customer of ours!) had damn fine taste in books this year. Presenting our Adult Bestsellers of 2025: ebbooksellers.com/lists/LUA2JI...
December 3, 2025 at 6:04 PM
You lot (assuming you're a customer of ours!) had damn fine taste in books this year. Presenting our Adult Bestsellers of 2025: ebbooksellers.com/lists/LUA2JI...
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Great catalogue even if (like me) you've never been to California.
Not so great at compiling lists beyond daily To-Dos, but we did assemble a massive year-end catalog.
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December 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Great catalogue even if (like me) you've never been to California.
Due to some pub date changes & some other books selling out over the weekend, we've made a few changes to the catalog. Thought I'd present three of the art highlights in a thread.
December 3, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Due to some pub date changes & some other books selling out over the weekend, we've made a few changes to the catalog. Thought I'd present three of the art highlights in a thread.
Not so great at compiling lists beyond daily To-Dos, but we did assemble a massive year-end catalog.
simplebooklet.com/holiday-cata...
simplebooklet.com/holiday-cata...
December 1, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Not so great at compiling lists beyond daily To-Dos, but we did assemble a massive year-end catalog.
simplebooklet.com/holiday-cata...
simplebooklet.com/holiday-cata...
Strictly speaking, locally & indie may not be punk, but it is a big middle finger to the ICE-supporting / Trump-groveling corporates. So … it’s not not-punk either!
November 29, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Strictly speaking, locally & indie may not be punk, but it is a big middle finger to the ICE-supporting / Trump-groveling corporates. So … it’s not not-punk either!
It took some Faustian bargaining, but we somehow got today’s massive order on the shelves & displays today.
November 29, 2025 at 12:48 AM
It took some Faustian bargaining, but we somehow got today’s massive order on the shelves & displays today.
When we reopened at a new location last November, we were concerned nobody would know -- the stuff of daily life would surely consume the news, we thought. So, we posted signs around the neighborhood. A year on, the sign lives on now as a tote!
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Have You Seen Tote by | East Bay Booksellers
It's been quite a year. For a while there, following the fire at our store in July 2024, we were nomadic booksellers! With your help, we reemerged a few months later a little up the street.
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November 28, 2025 at 6:38 PM
When we reopened at a new location last November, we were concerned nobody would know -- the stuff of daily life would surely consume the news, we thought. So, we posted signs around the neighborhood. A year on, the sign lives on now as a tote!
ebbooksellers.com/item/is4c-Kb...
ebbooksellers.com/item/is4c-Kb...
Some of you may recall my laments last year around this time about how we were reopening short a lot of books that had yet to arrive from slowwwwwww distributors.
No comment about the speed of said distributors these days, but oh wow do we ever have enough books.
No comment about the speed of said distributors these days, but oh wow do we ever have enough books.
November 28, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Some of you may recall my laments last year around this time about how we were reopening short a lot of books that had yet to arrive from slowwwwwww distributors.
No comment about the speed of said distributors these days, but oh wow do we ever have enough books.
No comment about the speed of said distributors these days, but oh wow do we ever have enough books.
& you can have your own here as well! www.bonfire.com/saint-margar...
November 27, 2025 at 11:21 PM
& you can have your own here as well! www.bonfire.com/saint-margar...
New you can use.
November 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
New you can use.
New limited edition totes coming by Friday!! Hope you like ‘em.
November 25, 2025 at 6:41 PM
New limited edition totes coming by Friday!! Hope you like ‘em.
The problem with the NYT 100
Notable Books isn’t the books. They’re mostly fine. Some are even great. It’s the same exceedingly narrow slice of publishing that it takes into account.
The small presses that pop up feel largely like credibility bolsters, but also almost jarringly out of place.
Notable Books isn’t the books. They’re mostly fine. Some are even great. It’s the same exceedingly narrow slice of publishing that it takes into account.
The small presses that pop up feel largely like credibility bolsters, but also almost jarringly out of place.
November 25, 2025 at 6:13 PM
The problem with the NYT 100
Notable Books isn’t the books. They’re mostly fine. Some are even great. It’s the same exceedingly narrow slice of publishing that it takes into account.
The small presses that pop up feel largely like credibility bolsters, but also almost jarringly out of place.
Notable Books isn’t the books. They’re mostly fine. Some are even great. It’s the same exceedingly narrow slice of publishing that it takes into account.
The small presses that pop up feel largely like credibility bolsters, but also almost jarringly out of place.
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If you like an author's work, the best thing you can do is buy it. The second best thing you can do is ask your local library to buy it. Or, do both!
A reminder that the median book deal for a debut author in the UK is £7000, paid over 12-18 months. (from 2022 Society of Authors report). Some of your favourite writers are struggling. societyofauthors.org/2022/12/06/a....
A profession struggling to sustain itself - The Society of Authors
ALCS report on author incomes shows 60% drop in median incomes since 2006
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November 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM
If you like an author's work, the best thing you can do is buy it. The second best thing you can do is ask your local library to buy it. Or, do both!
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"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
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November 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
Just added a temporary holiday popup note to the website. Get ‘em while the gettin’s good!
November 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Just added a temporary holiday popup note to the website. Get ‘em while the gettin’s good!
The Year That Was at East Bay Booksellers -- Plus Holiday Catalogs!
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November 22, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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Drooling over the @ebbooksellers.bsky.social holiday catalog! So many goodies here (including several of ours!)
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Holiday Catalog 2025
Holiday Catalog 2025
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November 21, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Drooling over the @ebbooksellers.bsky.social holiday catalog! So many goodies here (including several of ours!)
simplebooklet.com/holiday-cata...
simplebooklet.com/holiday-cata...
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Congratulations to Omar El Akkad for winning the 2025 National Book Award in Nonfiction! ICYMI: Omar's appearance on the show was one of the great all-time conversations so far.
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/omar...
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/omar...
Omar El Akkad : One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This - Tin House
In late October 2023, weeks into Israel’s bombing of northern Gaza, the novelist Omar El Akkad retweeted a video taken by a Gazan man. This video showed a lifeless moonscape with endless empty streets...
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November 20, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Congratulations to Omar El Akkad for winning the 2025 National Book Award in Nonfiction! ICYMI: Omar's appearance on the show was one of the great all-time conversations so far.
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/omar...
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/omar...