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Volume 2, Issue 1
Appreciation by and for customers
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PUBLISHER’S LETTER
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e’ve taken to the streets. Booksellers from across the country tell us useful tips in planning your trip to their stores. They share what they appreciate about their customers, why they love independently published books, and what their greatest challenges and opportunities are. Bookstores are alive and well as we noted in our last issue. Independents and chains are planning for a successful 2023. Barnes & Noble is opening 30 stores to their already 600 stores in the U.S. For perspective, B&N at its height had 726 locations in 2008. Ironically, the new stores are to be designed more like independent bookstores, which encourage customers to hang out and enjoy the space. As we find ourselves in this “messy middle” of online verses brick and mortar shopping, there is even a greater need to discover new books and authors. I hope the magazine provides another great way to easily explore and find one’s next great read!
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Publisher’s Letter GAB TALKS: Interview with Craig M. Porter Rollins Bookstore LOVE Discover Indie Book Listings Children’s Book Award GAB TALKS: Interview with Timothy J. Brown PH. D. Call for entries in the NYC Big Book Award Call for entries in the Independent Press Award Thank you Booksellers!
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Author’sPICK Main Street Books
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Main Street Books is a fantastic independently owned bookstore nestled in the heart of St. Charles Missouri on Main Street. Their staff is friendly and knowledgeable. The store carries every title you are looking for and, more importantly, ones you didn’t even know you needed. If you can’t find something in the stacks, the staff is happy to order it for you and even ship it to you for your convenience. Main Street Books hosts events regularly including local author book signings, children’s story time, book clubs for youth and adults, and even works with the local county library system to bring in nationally renowned authors. Their business is books and they excel at what they do! Jessica Mathews’ Pick Author, and President of the St Louis Writers Guild
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