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Where’s Waldo? Shop Local with Independent Booksellers

By John Kremer on Wednesday, June 20th, 2012 | Comments Off

Tweet During the month of July, 250 indie booksellers are going to promote a Shop Local campaign featuring Where’s Waldo (who, by the way, is celebrating his 25th anniversary this year). From Mendocino to Minneapolis, Oshkosh to Omaha, San Diego to Schenectady, Tampa to Telluride, and indie bookstores in all fifty states will be hosting [...]

Food for Thought Books Collective – Amherst, Massachusetts

By John Kremer on Thursday, November 10th, 2011 | Comments Off

Tweet Food for Thought Books Collective 106 N Pleasant Street Amherst MA 01002-1703 413-253-5432 Fax: 413-256-8329 Email: info@foodforthoughtbooks.com Web: http://www.foodforthoughtbooks.com Mitch Gaslin, Children’s Buyer In deep financial trouble. Might not be paying bills (10/10). Collectively owned. Celebrated it 35th anniversary in November, 2011. Motto: The collective is dedicated to the dissemination of radical and progressive [...]

Why Readers Should Buy from Indie Bookstores

By John Kremer on Saturday, July 16th, 2011 | Comments Off

Tweet The following is from a great blog post by Leslie Brunetta, co-author of Spider Silk, on the Porter Square Books blog. You should read the entire post, but I thought the following were the most important points she made. Porter Square Books does all this for writers, but it’s not a charity. It’s a [...]