A Michigan indie takes on Facebook; Cleveland booksellers honor Women's History Month; three booksellers win book fair scholarships; and more.
Facebook Deletes Michigan Bookstore's Page Then Restores It: The Book Beat bookstore in suburban Detroit had lost its Facebook page for several days after a complaint from Sweden's Bonnier, which recently launched a new audiobook subscription service with the name BookBeat. The site, which contained ten years of postings and links to nearly 5,000 people was restored yesterday.
Cleveland Bookstore Shelves Men's Books Backwards: As a visual metaphor in support of Womens History Month, booksellers at Loganberry Books took two hours to comb nearly 10,000 books and face those by male authors spine in.
Three Booksellers Win International Book Fair Scholarships: Jonathon Welch of Talking Leaves Books, Buffalo, N.Y.; Jennifer Witte of Skylight Books, Los Angeles, Calif.; and Camilla Orr of Changing Hands Bookstore, Tempe and Phoenix, Ariz. have won scholarships from Europa Editions and Other Press that will allow them to attend the Turin International Book Fair May 18-22.
BAM Spin-Off 2nd & Charles Opens in Indiana: The new store in Highland, Indiana offers some 300,000 items for sale and allows customers "a forum to buy, sell and trade goods all in the same place."
Queen Books to Open in April in Toronto: A new 1,700 sq.-ft. general interest bookstore is opening in the Leslieville neighborhood of Toronto this April. The co-owners, Alex Snider and Liz Burns, met while working at Type Books.
Death of Coloring Book Trend Hurts B&N: The chain bookseller blamed the end of the fad which gave an unexpected boost to sales in 2015 for some of its poor results last year.
