Harvard Bookstore chides Kellyanne Conway; HC promoting indies on Facebook; Boston's Trident encourages activism; and more.
Harvard Bookstore Mocks Kellyanne Conway's Terrorist Flub: The bookstore has posted a photo on Instagram promoting titles to help you understand the "Bowling Green Massacre," including “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life,” “The Anatomy of Fascism,” and “The Plot Against America.”
HarperCollins to Promote 50 Indie Bookstore on Facebook: The publisher is featuring a Facebook Live feed from a different independent bookstore each week for 50 weeks in 2017.
Boston's Trident Bookstore Hosts Activist Event: The bookseller drew some 200 people to an event dubbed "Write Your Reps" which encouraged customers to become more politically engaged.
Book Passage Expands to Sausalito: The California retailer, with locations in San Francisco and Corte Madera, has expanded further by opening an new, 1,800-sq.-ft. store.
Canadian Bookstore Opens to Serve Immigrant Communities: Family & Bookland, a bookstore in Charlottetown on Prince Edward Island, is intended as a gathering place for Chinese, immigrant and local communities to come together.
London Book Fair Announces Three Finalists for Bookseller of the Year: Time Out Bookstore in Auckland, NZ, Shakespeare & Co. in Paris and South African chain Exclusive Books are in the running to win the prize sponsored by Gardners Books Ltd. and given at the London Book Fair.
Eighteen Books Vie for Waterstones Children's Book Prize: "Perhaps unsurprisingly in a year that has so far been overshadowed by sometimes troubling global events, our shortlist is particularly abundant in struggle and hope," said the U.K. bookstore chain in a press release for the annual award.
Controversial Hong Kong Bookseller Makes Appearance at Taipei Book Fair: Lam Wing-kee, a former owner and manger of independent Hong Kong bookstore Causeway Bay Books, who says he was abducted and jailed last year for selling books critical of China, denies that he's seeking asylum or plans to open a bookstore in Taiwan.
