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Plenary Notes, Oct 18-19, 2021

Nov 24, 2021

Authors & Bookstores, Bookselling as a Profession, Bookstore Events, Bookstores as a Social Cause, New Financial Models, Oct 18-19, 2021 – Day 1 Cohort A, Oct 18-19, 2021 – Day 1 Cohort B, Oct 18-19, 2021 – Day 1 Cohort C, Oct 18-19, 2021 – Day 2 Cohort A, Oct 18-19, 2021 – Day 2 Cohort B, Oct 18-19, 2021 – Day 2 Cohort C, Publishers & Bookstores, Readers & Bookstores, Representation in Bookstores

October 18 Opening Remarks October 18 Evening News October 19 News and Announcements October 19 Closing October 18 Opening Remarks… Read more
How can community bookstores self-organize to help themselves?

Nov 22, 2021

Bookselling as a Profession, Bookstores as a Social Cause, New Financial Models, Oct 18-19, 2021 – Day 2 Cohort C

Host: Paul Wright Participants: Betsy Weitzman, Jasmine Valandani, Kelly Stromberg, Malcolm Margolin, Nialle Sylvan, Paul Wright Notes: Is there an owner… Read more
How to reimagine bookstores while also doing everything we already do?

Nov 22, 2021

Bookselling as a Profession, Oct 18-19, 2021 – Day 2 Cohort C

Host: Lisa Swayze, Buffalo Street Books Participants: Mary Williams, Skylight Books Kit Steinaway, BINC, Jessica Stockton-Bagnolo, Greenlight Veronica Liu,… Read more
What do we love about what we do, and how can we do more of that?

Nov 22, 2021

Bookselling as a Profession, New Financial Models, Oct 18-19, 2021 – Day 2 Cohort C

Host: Jessica Stockton-Bagnulo, Greenlight Bookstore (Brooklyn, NY) Participants: Kevin Smokler (author), Angela Pursell, Jessica Palacios (Once Upon A Time), Ben… Read more
Sustainability: What would a sustainable future for existing and new community bookstores look like?

Nov 22, 2021

Bookselling as a Profession, New Financial Models, Oct 18-19, 2021 – Day 2 Cohort C

Host: Paul Wright Participants: Notes: Defining Sustainability. Living wages, distinct from other retail jobs. Growing the pie to be able… Read more
What does the bookstore of the future look like? Wrong answers only (or maybe absurd answers too)

Nov 22, 2021

Bookselling as a Profession, New Financial Models, Oct 18-19, 2021 – Day 2 Cohort C

Christie Olson Day, Gallery Bookshop Participants: Another participant – Kim Patch, Rozzie Bound, Boston Notes: We all came up with… Read more
How do you keep bookstores running in a time where distribution houses are shutting down?

Nov 22, 2021

Bookselling as a Profession, New Financial Models, Oct 18-19, 2021 – Day 2 Cohort C

Host: Akanksha Vyas Notes: In the pandemic many distribution houses have started shutting down. Small, independent bookstores do not have… Read more
How does the “reimagined bookstore” exist in the current climate alongside more traditional models? What questions come into play as we move forward?

Nov 22, 2021

Bookselling as a Profession, Bookstores as a Social Cause, New Financial Models, Oct 18-19, 2021 – Day 2 Cohort C

Host: Lisa – Buffalo Street Books Participants: Notes: Is the reimagined bookstore in conflict with more traditional models? Some of the… Read more
How events, and event partnerships, can help bookstores

Nov 22, 2021

Bookselling as a Profession, Bookstore Events, Bookstores as a Social Cause, Oct 18-19, 2021 – Day 2 Cohort C

Host: Cherilyn Parsons (founder/ED of Bay Area Book Festival) Participants: Evan Karp; Steve Wax; Kelly Stromberg; Candace; Margot Sage Notes: The… Read more
Given that publishers tend to focus their tours for bigger, more well known authors in big cities and on the coasts, ignoring much of the flyover country where there’s a greater need for illumination and a wider point of view, how might they re-think their advertising and book launch campaigns to give smaller bookstores a “slice of the pie” and, thus, a real shot at impacting their communities?

Nov 22, 2021

Bookselling as a Profession, Bookstore Events, Oct 18-19, 2021 – Day 2 Cohort B, Publishers & Bookstores

Host: Tanya Mills, Book Bungalow Participants: Angie Grau, Bookseller Steph Opitz, Zibby Books Katrina Kruse, sales rep Missy, Katy Budget… Read more

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Reimagining Bookstores.

Deepening Literacy. Strengthening Communities. Paying Living Wages.

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