Atlanta’s A Cappella Books is planning a midnight opening event for the release of Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice.
In London, independent bookseller Crockatt and Powell is closing their South London store, after shuttering their Fulham Road branch in June. Stretching to try that second branch is what weakened the operation, co-owner Matthew Crockatt tells the Bookseller: “We made a commercial decision that didn’t turn out to be a good one.”
And in electronic bookselling, Sony has announced that they now have over 1 million public domain titles available on their Reader.