The Book Industry Charity Foundation has raised $1 million for a new bookstore grant program that will quickly provide grants to independent bookstores and comic shops facing financial challenges due to COVID-19. Binc’s Survive to Thrive initiative was funded with a leading gift of $500,000, jointly from Ingram Charities and Ingram Content Group; $250,000 from Bookshop.org; and an additional $250,000 total from Hachette, Harper Collins, Macmillan Publishers, and Penguin Random House, and seeks to raise an addition $1 million. Meeting that $2 million funding goal would support grants of up to $10,000 to 200 independent bookstores and comic shops. (Link […]