Imaginary Bookstores We’d Love to Visit

FlavorWire recently posted a series of photos and/or videos of ten bookshops depicted in various movies, television shows, and novels.

Don’t overlook, in the description to one of these photos, the link provided to a blogpost at The Yellow Library featuring multiple stills of the enchanting bookshop featured in the Academy Award-winning movie Hugo, based on the Caldecott Medal-winning book The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick.

Selznick’s book, of course, is available at your local public library…as will – eventually - the DVD of Scorses’s movie for those who aren’t lucky enough to see it on The Big Screen, or who want to see the movie again some day.

Found via Shelf Awareness

Atlanta Bookstore Moves to New Location

One of the city’s few remaining independently-owned bookstores, A Cappella Books, has moved from its Moreland Avenue location in Little Five Points to a new location several blocks away.

 

The new store will open at 208 Haralson Avenue, N.E., just off DeKalb Avenue in Inman Park  (about a block’s walk from the Inman Park/Reynoldstown MARTA rail station).

 

After over 22 years in Little Five Points, the old store closed at the end of January and moved to its newest (and larger) location the first week of February. Call the store at 404-681-5128 for information on when the new store will be open for business.

Another Atlanta-area Indy Bookstore Closing

Last month, it was OutWrite.

Next month’s casualty: Decatur’s The Blue Elephant.

Found via Shelf Awareness

More Drool-Worthy Bookstores!

We’ve posted links to photos of gorgeous bookstores before, but here (with few repeats) are twenty more, this time from the good folks at FlavorWire.

Found via Shelf Awareness

“Bookstores are Struggling, Reading is Surviving”

That’s the headline of an article by Lindsay Oberst posted to today’s Midtown Patch.

Lindsay examines the local particulars of two related nationwide trends: the closing of more and more brick-and-mortar bookstores (including, most recently, the bankruptcy of the giant Borders chain), and the increasing popularity among Americans for reading their books on computer screens.

If you live in one of Atlanta’s intown neighborhoods and haven’t already signed up to get the Midtown Patch’s daily postings, you might consider doing that.

 

The Death of Borders: An Insider’s Story

We’ve all read plenty about the bankruptcy of Borders Books and the closing of its stores and the abrupt unemployment of over 10,000 Borders employees.

No doubt there’ll be a book published eventually about What Actually Happened, but in the meantime here’s the most enlightening – and mostdepressing – tale we’ve read so far about how the management of Borders is largely (totally?) to blame for the company’s collapse – and about how long ago (and why)  that collapse began.

Found at The Stranger via HuffPost Books

Profile of Larry McMurtry’s Texas Bookstore

Not many individuals own and operate their own bookstores any longer.  

And we don’t know of any bestselling author other than Larry McMurtry who owns one.

Read the Shelf Awareness article about this unique – and far from small – store located in a tiny town in Texas.

Borders To Close Its Remaining 400 Stores

Well, the suspense is over about whether or not there’d be a last-minute rescue of the bankrupt Borders Books chain. According to (among other places) a report in today’s edition of  Shelf Awareness, another 10,000 Borders employees will be losing their jobs when the final 399 still-open Borders stores close their doors.

The Atlanta metro area has already lost several Borders locations, and now it will lose the rest of them – including the store in Midtown.

A Floating Bookstore

A bookstore-in-a-boat was recently, um, launched in Staffordshire, England.

Read all about it.

Found via Shelf Awareness

Atlanta Book Exchange Closing Soon

Boo! Hiss! One of the oldest and best used bookstores in town in closing!

Business just isn’t brisk enough, and the owner apparently is getting worn out with all the heavy lifting required to keep this 40-year-old operation going any longer. (Before its current incarnation across from the parking lot of Manuel’s Tavern, ABE was located near the Plaza Theatre, and, before that, at the intersection of Virginia and Highland.)

 The store’s demise – and the pattern of independently-owned bookstores closing that ABE’s demise is part and parcel of – is the bad news.

The good news is that everything’s on sale for 75% off the original listed price of each book. And there are lots of them, on every conceivable subject, genre, size, and condition. The warren of little rooms in this former house are piled to the rafters with books, although, thankfully, there are several places to sit down while you’re browsing.

We overheard the owner explaining that he’s selling the stock to a dealer in south Georgia, and that – after a break – he may or may not continue selling books online. The bookstore remains open only through July 5th, so get on over there quick! Phone 404-681-3122 for business hours.