Construction for a new bookstore called the Green Toad has begun on Main Street in Oneonta, N.Y., according to the Daily Star.
Owner Michele Pondolfino hopes to open the general bookstore in November. The Green Toad, which aims to be "a gathering place," will have a passageway to the Latte Lounge next door. Pondolfino has sold real estate since 1993 and has long wanted to open a bookstore.
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Heights Bookstore, Brooklyn, N.Y., won’t close, even though the
building that houses the bookshop is being sold. "We don't own the
building, so this wasn't our decision," co-owner Tracy Walsch told the Brooklyn Paper.
"But we have no plans to close. We'll move before we close." Walsch
added that they hope to remain in the neighborhood: "We're victims to
the market. But we'll do what we have to to stay in business."
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Harry
Potter and the nonexistent author event? Book Sack bookstore, Slidell,
La., was the site--and victim--of a Harry Potter hoax Tuesday morning
that saw fans line up for a book signing by J.K. Rowling, despite the
fact that she may have been half a continent and an ocean away at the
time.
According to the St. Tammany News,
a "line of several hundred children, teens and parents snaked down
Bayou Lane ending in the shopping center behind the bookstore. They had
all heard the news that Rowling would be signing books at the small
bookstore starting at 9:30 a.m."
Even after Book Sack co-owner
Betty Kittner told the crowd that Rowling wouldn't be coming, "some of
the fans reluctantly left, but the majority stayed in line, hoping
against hope that there would be some real magic and the author would
show up."
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From the "there's no such thing as bad
publicity dept.," Tom Bullough, who suffered a "national embarrassment"
when he was mistakenly announced as the winner of the Wales Book of the
Year (Shelf Awareness, July 7, 2008) at the awards ceremony, has garnered unanticipated public interest in, and increased sales for, his novel, The Claude Glass, according to WalesOnline.
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Effective immediately, David Falk has been named director of sales and marketing of the Overlook Press. He was formerly director of national accounts at Houghton Mifflin and before that was a buyer at Baker & Taylor and a store manager at Barnes & Noble.
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Jessica Deutsch has been promoted to marketing and publicity manager of Milkweed Editions. She joined the house in 2006 as marketing associate. Earlier she was a co-manager at Wild Rumpus bookstore and interned at the Loft Literacy Center's Speakeasy Magazine and at Coffee House Press.