I’ve been thinking about where I’m going with this blog. When I first started in March, I was very excited to post about two things I love but don’t get to talk about much: used bookstores and comics collections in libraries. But visiting bookstores and libraries right now is difficult, and it’s not likely to…
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Online Storefronts of Independent Bookshops Affected by Coronavirus
On March 12, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf asked all nonessential retailers in Montgomery County to close for two weeks. Since then, I’ve seen seen several tweets mentioning Bookshop.org, an online bookstore that provides financial support to indie bookstores. As the website is still in beta, some of the search functions can be a bit clunky,…
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I’m Elaine, a graduate of a tiny liberal arts college’s MA in Publishing program. Over the last three years, I’ve been studying comics, specifically, the specialized publishing practices that developed in the comics industry independently from traditional publishing. More recently, I’ve researched library marketing and indie comics distribution. (By research, I mean I wrote my…
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