I’ve bought books through them on several occasions.
Here’s a report on the company:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-24/independent-bookstores-offer-curbside-pickup-to-beat-coronavirus
<https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-24/independent-bookstores-offer-curbside-pickup-to-beat-coronavirus>
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-06-19/can-independent-bookstores-survive-covid-19
<https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-06-19/can-independent-bookstores-survive-covid-19>
Regards,
Alex Johnson
Visit my CAF gallery at http://cafurl.com?i=12727
Your comments are more than welcome.
On Jan 11, 2021, at 12:12 PM, yellowkd@xxxxxxx wrote:
One of the things that came out during the Detroit Bookfest Board Meeting
Saturday (we are now a non-profit after holding 3 annual book events that
drew an average of 13,000 people and 150 vendors ) was www.bookshop.org
<http://www.bookshop.org/> a collective site by the America booksellers
association where member bookstores can list mainly new books and they are
directly drop shipped to customers from a major book distributor- the stores
get 30% of the sale but don't have to do the shipping etc.. A interesting
model -it looks like the stores have pulled in 10 million so far on what
would be $30 million in sales- I don't know all the details but if graphic
novels are part of the mix brick and mortar comic book stores could benefit
from it. The guy who talked to s about it is part of a cooperative bookstore
in a local suburb here- the site is a coop effort with cost sharing and
profit sharing between member stores and the coop.
George Hagenauer
From: "Will Gabri-El" <comicartpage@xxxxxxxxx>
To: comicartl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, January 11, 2021 12:58:51 PM
Subject: [comicart-l] NY Times Article: New Comics Shopping Platform Offers
Live Programming and Brings Attention to Comic Stores
Beginning Thursday January 21st, I’ll be co-hosting a 2 hour program in the
evenings that showcases Original Artwork For Sale! The Comic Book Shopping
Experience, co-founded by Nick Barrucci, Chief Executive and Publisher of
Dynamite Entertainment <https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/> (and fellow art
collector) aims to reach comic fans and also bring attention to retailers!!
Here’s the NY Times press release under their Best of 2020:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/11/arts/comic-book-shopping-platform.html ;
<https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/11/arts/comic-book-shopping-platform.html>
Best regards,
Will Gabri-El
www.ComicArtPage.com <http://www.comicartpage.com/>
