Europe gets its first POD bookstore; a San Francisco store branches out; and a Chinese bookstore tries to satisfy the needs of its country’s large population.
Dog Eared Books to Open in the Castro: Just days after Books Inc. announced that it would leave the San Francisco neighborhood, Dog Eared Books posted on Facebook that it will add a second store there in May. The new store will open in the space formerly occupied by In a Different Light Books, which closed in 2011.
Snow Goose Books & Frames on the Market: Owners Kristine Kaufman and Tom Bird are “hanging up [their] bookselling shoes” after 18 years at the Stanwood, Wash., bookstore and looking for a buyer. They plan to actively manage the store until it is sold.
Print-on-Demand Only Bookshop Opens in Paris: After closing its Paris bookstore in 1999, Les Presses Universitaires de France (PUF) opened an all-digital bookshop that relies solely on an Espresso Book Machine to print inventory, a first for the city and for Europe.
China’s CITIC Press Bookstore to Add 1,000 Stores This Year: The publishing offshoot of State-owned investment company China International Trust and Investment Corporation, is targeting Beijing and Shanghai, particularly vicinities near office buildings of Fortune 500 companies for bookstore cafés.
