ABA elects new president; new N.C. indie breaks ground; inside Paris's most cinematic bookstore; and more.
American Booksellers Association Elects New President: Robert Sindelar of Third Place Books, with three locations in Washington state, will serve a two-year term as ABA president. The ABA also named a new v-p/secretary.
Second New Store for Winston-Salem: Bookmarks, a non-profit literacy organization in Winston-Salem, N.C., broke ground on a new bookstore scheduled to open in July.
Wisconsin’s Indie to Open Second Location: Tribeca Gallery Café & Books will open a second location in Milwaukee's Freshwater Development.
Why Touching Booksellers is Not Cool: Emily Ballaine, a manager at Green Apple Books in San Francisco, writes in LitHub of her discomfort with having her arm grabbed while serving male customers.
Maine Bookstore to Close: Citing slumping sales, Lambs Book and Bible, a Christian store in Bangor, will close after 25 years in business.
Book Depository Successfully Sources from Australia: The U.K.-based wholly-owned subsidiary of Amazon has added some 36,000 Australian titles to its catalog in the past year.
Visiting Paris's Most Cinematic Bookstore: Marc Benda, manager of the Librairie du Cinéma du Panthéon, discusses the role of the 25-year-old bookstore in fostering an appreciation of film.
The Door-to-Door Bookselling Biz Thriving in India: Tarun Kumar Shaw carries on the business of selling books from his apartment and delivering them by scooter, in a business started by his father three decades ago.
