40 in the booktrade today, here I am in 1987 in my first bookshop, Benns Books. Was so lucky to land that job in 85, after my HSC results were not going to get me into the course I wanted. So lucky to work for Richard, who had known Dylan Thomas, Jan Morris, &had even had a drink with Hemingway.
February 1, 2025 at 7:22 AM
40 in the booktrade today, here I am in 1987 in my first bookshop, Benns Books. Was so lucky to land that job in 85, after my HSC results were not going to get me into the course I wanted. So lucky to work for Richard, who had known Dylan Thomas, Jan Morris, &had even had a drink with Hemingway.
New article on 200 years of the Börsenverein published ahead of print. Peter Vodosek reviews a landmark volume tracing German publishing history via 216 essays from 1825–2025, spanning innovation, repression, and renewal. #publishing #booktrade #Germany #history #openaccess
doi.org/10.1515/bfp-...
doi.org/10.1515/bfp-...
Peter Vodosek: Peter Vodosek examines a major new volume marking 200 years of the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels, Europe’s oldest trade association. Comprising 216 essays curated by Christine Haug and Stephanie Jacobs, the book offers a chronicle of the German book trade’s complex history from 1825 to 2025. Departing from a traditional organizational narrative, the volume highlights key events, figures, and controversies through concise, expertly authored entries. Notably, it embraces an experimental design and includes reflections on democratic values and intellectual freedom. Intended for both scholars and the general public, the publication complements an upcoming exhibition at the German Book and Script Museum.
doi.org
November 3, 2025 at 4:24 PM
New article on 200 years of the Börsenverein published ahead of print. Peter Vodosek reviews a landmark volume tracing German publishing history via 216 essays from 1825–2025, spanning innovation, repression, and renewal. #publishing #booktrade #Germany #history #openaccess
doi.org/10.1515/bfp-...
doi.org/10.1515/bfp-...
sad to learn that my first booktrade boss has died. Vale Meredith.
December 20, 2024 at 2:45 AM
sad to learn that my first booktrade boss has died. Vale Meredith.
@jennifertribe May I please have my blog, EditorMom, http://editor-mom.blogspot.com/, added to the #booktrade directory? Thanks.
EditorMom
I'm a medical editor who takes excellent care of her auth...
editor-mom.blogspot.com
December 5, 2024 at 5:53 AM
@jennifertribe May I please have my blog, EditorMom, http://editor-mom.blogspot.com/, added to the #booktrade directory? Thanks.
The Welsh bookshops in the running for the ‘Baftas of the booktrade’
The Welsh bookshops in the running for the 'Baftas of the booktrade'
Five Welsh bookstores will be looking to be named the Independent Bookshop of the Year after the finalists for the British Book Awards were announced today. A total of 72 independent bookshops were se...
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February 19, 2025 at 5:52 AM
The Welsh bookshops in the running for the ‘Baftas of the booktrade’
The new 100% film tariff could set a precedent for publishing. Authors, publishers, and digital nomads: are your supply chains protected?
We break down the implications for the creative economy: https://tinyurl.com/wfhxzvxy
#Publishing #BookTrade #TariffTalk #GlobalAuthors
We break down the implications for the creative economy: https://tinyurl.com/wfhxzvxy
#Publishing #BookTrade #TariffTalk #GlobalAuthors
May 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The new 100% film tariff could set a precedent for publishing. Authors, publishers, and digital nomads: are your supply chains protected?
We break down the implications for the creative economy: https://tinyurl.com/wfhxzvxy
#Publishing #BookTrade #TariffTalk #GlobalAuthors
We break down the implications for the creative economy: https://tinyurl.com/wfhxzvxy
#Publishing #BookTrade #TariffTalk #GlobalAuthors
Many thanks for the explanation, @richove.bsky.social. The Humanities Computing and Media Centre at UVic (@uvichcmc.bsky.social, home of The Map of Early Modern London), has downloaded the British Booktrade Index data and is working on spinning up a functional static replacement site.
November 30, 2024 at 11:58 PM
Many thanks for the explanation, @richove.bsky.social. The Humanities Computing and Media Centre at UVic (@uvichcmc.bsky.social, home of The Map of Early Modern London), has downloaded the British Booktrade Index data and is working on spinning up a functional static replacement site.
For a modern context, I hope someone's going to mention the legendary Drif's Guide. Drif was anonymous, but I met them in my family's shop after my dad worked out the identity ... The secondhand/antiquarian booktrade was notoriously gossipy, and occasionally scandalous.
October 16, 2023 at 10:16 AM
For a modern context, I hope someone's going to mention the legendary Drif's Guide. Drif was anonymous, but I met them in my family's shop after my dad worked out the identity ... The secondhand/antiquarian booktrade was notoriously gossipy, and occasionally scandalous.
Warszawo! Przybywam. 🔥😁
Widzimy się 17 maja 2025 r. na Międzynarodowych Targach Książki w Warszawie. Znajdziecie mnie na stoisku Pulp Books. Kto chętny na spotkanie?
#TargiKsiążki #Warszawa #Literatura #Spotkania #Pamiętamtylkoogień #booktrade #Warsaw #Literature #books #writer
Widzimy się 17 maja 2025 r. na Międzynarodowych Targach Książki w Warszawie. Znajdziecie mnie na stoisku Pulp Books. Kto chętny na spotkanie?
#TargiKsiążki #Warszawa #Literatura #Spotkania #Pamiętamtylkoogień #booktrade #Warsaw #Literature #books #writer
May 9, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Warszawo! Przybywam. 🔥😁
Widzimy się 17 maja 2025 r. na Międzynarodowych Targach Książki w Warszawie. Znajdziecie mnie na stoisku Pulp Books. Kto chętny na spotkanie?
#TargiKsiążki #Warszawa #Literatura #Spotkania #Pamiętamtylkoogień #booktrade #Warsaw #Literature #books #writer
Widzimy się 17 maja 2025 r. na Międzynarodowych Targach Książki w Warszawie. Znajdziecie mnie na stoisku Pulp Books. Kto chętny na spotkanie?
#TargiKsiążki #Warszawa #Literatura #Spotkania #Pamiętamtylkoogień #booktrade #Warsaw #Literature #books #writer
June 9, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Including a Cool poetry chapbook by @russellcarisse.bsky.social concrete, anagrams, typerighter Art made with a 100 year old LC Smith Corona Typerighter
poetry and labour is concrete with above/ground press
#poetry #typerighter #cats #bookTrade #BookSwap #seedSwap
#Plants #gardeningFeed 🌱 #Seeds
poetry and labour is concrete with above/ground press
#poetry #typerighter #cats #bookTrade #BookSwap #seedSwap
#Plants #gardeningFeed 🌱 #Seeds
January 30, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Including a Cool poetry chapbook by @russellcarisse.bsky.social concrete, anagrams, typerighter Art made with a 100 year old LC Smith Corona Typerighter
poetry and labour is concrete with above/ground press
#poetry #typerighter #cats #bookTrade #BookSwap #seedSwap
#Plants #gardeningFeed 🌱 #Seeds
poetry and labour is concrete with above/ground press
#poetry #typerighter #cats #bookTrade #BookSwap #seedSwap
#Plants #gardeningFeed 🌱 #Seeds
It was annoying when I worked in the booktrade. Then I became a freelance BC consultant and it was massively useful. Now I’m employed by a partner it’s annoying again.
December 13, 2024 at 3:07 PM
It was annoying when I worked in the booktrade. Then I became a freelance BC consultant and it was massively useful. Now I’m employed by a partner it’s annoying again.
It's #LondonBookFair Come find us - we are with the @ipghq.bsky.social on Stand 6E70.
Looking forward to meeting and greeting over coming days.
#LBF #LBF2025 #naturalhistorybooks #booktrade #travelbooks #publishing #wildlifeguides #naturalistsguides
Looking forward to meeting and greeting over coming days.
#LBF #LBF2025 #naturalhistorybooks #booktrade #travelbooks #publishing #wildlifeguides #naturalistsguides
March 11, 2025 at 10:01 AM
It's #LondonBookFair Come find us - we are with the @ipghq.bsky.social on Stand 6E70.
Looking forward to meeting and greeting over coming days.
#LBF #LBF2025 #naturalhistorybooks #booktrade #travelbooks #publishing #wildlifeguides #naturalistsguides
Looking forward to meeting and greeting over coming days.
#LBF #LBF2025 #naturalhistorybooks #booktrade #travelbooks #publishing #wildlifeguides #naturalistsguides
No. Starting to think this Tyndale, Antwerp and the Tudor Booktrade conference was a fiendish Flemish trap.
July 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
No. Starting to think this Tyndale, Antwerp and the Tudor Booktrade conference was a fiendish Flemish trap.
Working in the booktrade, and thank you for alerting me to this. Preemptive block. It worries me how many people will be duped by this nonsense, and meanwhile the trade here is struggling. For the love of duck people, walk into an actual bookstore
July 23, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Working in the booktrade, and thank you for alerting me to this. Preemptive block. It worries me how many people will be duped by this nonsense, and meanwhile the trade here is struggling. For the love of duck people, walk into an actual bookstore
Must be time for 'death of the book' again surely? It's been... weeks... #booktrade
July 31, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Must be time for 'death of the book' again surely? It's been... weeks... #booktrade
THIS. A few years back, I was reading a feature in a booktrade magazine where a range of indie bookseller were asked what they'd give to people thinking of getting on the game. One was blunt (I paraprase): "Be your own landlord. The mortgage may be terrifying, but it will add years to your life."
Excessive rent and other spiralling costs closes popular cafe.
Commercial landlords seldom feature in the news as a driver of business closures but it’s often their greed that forces business to close. #NZpol
Commercial landlords seldom feature in the news as a driver of business closures but it’s often their greed that forces business to close. #NZpol
Are the days of brunching over? Popular Auckland cafe KIND closes amidst economic pressures
"The model of a full service cafe, I think that season is gone," the owner says.
www.rnz.co.nz
July 9, 2025 at 8:32 PM
THIS. A few years back, I was reading a feature in a booktrade magazine where a range of indie bookseller were asked what they'd give to people thinking of getting on the game. One was blunt (I paraprase): "Be your own landlord. The mortgage may be terrifying, but it will add years to your life."
AIE (Association of Italian Publishers) estimates that in 2024 book sales in Italy lost €62.7 million to the changes made in the cultural voucher called the 18App, through which teens originally had €500 to spend on cultural goods.
#booktrade #Italy
publishingperspectives.com/2025/01/scuo...
#booktrade #Italy
publishingperspectives.com/2025/01/scuo...
Mauri School: Italy’s Book Trade Down 23.2 Million Units in 2024
The change to Italy's '18App' 'culture voucher' reportedly cost Italy's book business some €62.7 million, per AIE…
publishingperspectives.com
February 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
AIE (Association of Italian Publishers) estimates that in 2024 book sales in Italy lost €62.7 million to the changes made in the cultural voucher called the 18App, through which teens originally had €500 to spend on cultural goods.
#booktrade #Italy
publishingperspectives.com/2025/01/scuo...
#booktrade #Italy
publishingperspectives.com/2025/01/scuo...
Excited to see more initiatives promoting #ReadingForPleasure in primary schools! 📚 Cultivating a love for books can inspire lifelong learners ❤️ #PublishingTrends #BookTrade
April 30, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Excited to see more initiatives promoting #ReadingForPleasure in primary schools! 📚 Cultivating a love for books can inspire lifelong learners ❤️ #PublishingTrends #BookTrade
Women and the booktrade. Elisabeth van Biesen de Haes is found in this impressum under her own name as 'Printer [drukster] of the noble court of Guelders' #bookhistory
November 15, 2024 at 12:04 PM
Women and the booktrade. Elisabeth van Biesen de Haes is found in this impressum under her own name as 'Printer [drukster] of the noble court of Guelders' #bookhistory
DC's Compact Comics line is a comics' new sales juggernaut, as 7 months of sales overshadow pretty much all other Big Two superhero sales in booktrade
www.thepopverse.com/comics-dc-co...
www.thepopverse.com/comics-dc-co...
DC's Compact Comics line is a comics' new sales juggernaut, as 7 months of sales overshadow pretty much all other Big Two superhero sales in booktrade
DC's Compact Comics line is selling more than Marvel's entire output in bookstores in 2024, according to year-end top 20 sales charts.
www.thepopverse.com
March 20, 2025 at 4:47 PM
DC's Compact Comics line is a comics' new sales juggernaut, as 7 months of sales overshadow pretty much all other Big Two superhero sales in booktrade
www.thepopverse.com/comics-dc-co...
www.thepopverse.com/comics-dc-co...
This can't mean end user sales?
With WotC nuking all their booktrade distri deals, this has to only mean sales to game distributors and retailers. Which are now non-returnable so are probably booked as sales immediately.
With WotC nuking all their booktrade distri deals, this has to only mean sales to game distributors and retailers. Which are now non-returnable so are probably booked as sales immediately.
September 26, 2024 at 11:50 AM
This can't mean end user sales?
With WotC nuking all their booktrade distri deals, this has to only mean sales to game distributors and retailers. Which are now non-returnable so are probably booked as sales immediately.
With WotC nuking all their booktrade distri deals, this has to only mean sales to game distributors and retailers. Which are now non-returnable so are probably booked as sales immediately.
This magnificent Tudor gatehouse stands at what was once a centre of the London booktrade. Recently #how-to researcher @jamesafox.bsky.social visited this and other sites following in the footsteps of #earlymodern how-to book buyers 📚
Read more on our blog: howtobook.hypotheses.org/3581
#bookhistory
Read more on our blog: howtobook.hypotheses.org/3581
#bookhistory
April 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
This magnificent Tudor gatehouse stands at what was once a centre of the London booktrade. Recently #how-to researcher @jamesafox.bsky.social visited this and other sites following in the footsteps of #earlymodern how-to book buyers 📚
Read more on our blog: howtobook.hypotheses.org/3581
#bookhistory
Read more on our blog: howtobook.hypotheses.org/3581
#bookhistory
Ok I’m on here now. Looking for all the #ukpublishing #bookpublishing #publishing #ukbooks #booksuk #editors #writers #authors #booktrade people!
November 15, 2024 at 10:02 PM
Ok I’m on here now. Looking for all the #ukpublishing #bookpublishing #publishing #ukbooks #booksuk #editors #writers #authors #booktrade people!
We are proud to be one of the finalists for Small Press of the Year in the British Book Awards. So many great indie publishers on the list adding much needed pluralism to the world of publishing. Here we are celebrating a book launch #publishing #finalist #booktrade #communications
March 4, 2025 at 11:24 PM
We are proud to be one of the finalists for Small Press of the Year in the British Book Awards. So many great indie publishers on the list adding much needed pluralism to the world of publishing. Here we are celebrating a book launch #publishing #finalist #booktrade #communications