Apr 25, 2023
I saw Dan Fridd in
action promoting Edelweiss "the book industry's platform to market,
sell, discover, and order new titles" at the RISE Bookselling
Conference in Prague a few weeks ago and knew I had to have him on
the show.
Dan is Client "Success" Manager for
Edelweiss. We talk about the company, his career in...
Apr 18, 2023
Maria Hamrefors was appointed chairwoman of
the Swedish Booksellers Association in 2019 after a long career in
the book industry. Previous positions include CEO of
Akademibokhandeln, CEO of Bokus, CEO of Norstedts Publishing Group,
CEO of Thomson Corp in Sweden and director of Sweet & Maxwell Group
in the UK. She is the...
Apr 9, 2023
Putin is murdering Ukrainians. Xi is likely perpetrating a
genocide on the Uyghurs. He's also threatening to murder
Taiwanese, and he's crushing democracy in Hong Kong. Trump is
ignoring the rule of law. Florida is censoring books.
Why am I doing what I'm doing? Why have I interviewed more than 600
people about the...
Apr 2, 2023
Jeff Deutsch is a
devoted reader, browser and lifelong bookseller. He's the director
of Chicago's iconic Seminary Co-op Bookstores, and has written a
book entitled In Praise of Good Bookstores (Princeton,
2022) in which he calls for a re-imagining of the current
bookselling model, one that incorporates more than just...