#booktrade — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #booktrade, aggregated by home.social.
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A Bookstore Grows in Damascus - Publishing Perspectives
https://publishingperspectives.com/2026/05/a-bookstore-grows-in-damascus/
> Al Manhal bakery and books hopes to be a space where Syrians can come together to learn about their own history and discuss deep issues following 54 years of dictatorship and censorship.
After decades of a brutal dictatorship, a revolution and then civil war, the sudden fall of the Assad regime in Syria in December 2024 gave Syrians their long-dreamed-for freedom of expression despite continuing financial hardship. Thousands of Syrians in exile flocked back to the country to visit, such as Actes Sud/Sindbad’s publisher Farouk Mardam-Bey, who returned to Damascus at age 80, having left the city 50 years ago.
Writer and journalist Asser Khattab was one of these visitors who had left Syria in 2017 as a young political refugee, returning after eight years as a French citizen, with the dream of opening a bookshop. Unlike Mardam-Bey, who grew up in Damascus in the 1950s and 60s during a period of cultural effervescence prior to the dictatorship, Khattab’s experience was one of frustration.
Like Mardam-Bey, Khattab grew up in a household where books were all-important. Everyone in his family read, and his grandfather was a writer. He read Arabic classics in his grandfather’s library and western 19th and 20th century classics in English at his missionary school. But what he really wanted to read—contemporary books he read about on the internet—were impossible to find in the numerous yet censored bookshops in Aleppo or Damascus, including ones that carried books in English.
“One day I want to have a curated bookshop,” he thought.
#booksaremagic #booktrade #education_is_a_right -
A Bookstore Grows in Damascus - Publishing Perspectives
https://publishingperspectives.com/2026/05/a-bookstore-grows-in-damascus/
> Al Manhal bakery and books hopes to be a space where Syrians can come together to learn about their own history and discuss deep issues following 54 years of dictatorship and censorship.
After decades of a brutal dictatorship, a revolution and then civil war, the sudden fall of the Assad regime in Syria in December 2024 gave Syrians their long-dreamed-for freedom of expression despite continuing financial hardship. Thousands of Syrians in exile flocked back to the country to visit, such as Actes Sud/Sindbad’s publisher Farouk Mardam-Bey, who returned to Damascus at age 80, having left the city 50 years ago.
Writer and journalist Asser Khattab was one of these visitors who had left Syria in 2017 as a young political refugee, returning after eight years as a French citizen, with the dream of opening a bookshop. Unlike Mardam-Bey, who grew up in Damascus in the 1950s and 60s during a period of cultural effervescence prior to the dictatorship, Khattab’s experience was one of frustration.
Like Mardam-Bey, Khattab grew up in a household where books were all-important. Everyone in his family read, and his grandfather was a writer. He read Arabic classics in his grandfather’s library and western 19th and 20th century classics in English at his missionary school. But what he really wanted to read—contemporary books he read about on the internet—were impossible to find in the numerous yet censored bookshops in Aleppo or Damascus, including ones that carried books in English.
“One day I want to have a curated bookshop,” he thought.
#booksaremagic #booktrade #education_is_a_right -
I don't know if this is really a thing on the Fediverse or not, but do people trade old books on here? Is there a book swap? Or even a digital little free library where all you pay is shipping?
I'm looking for some Kahlil Gibran books, particularly "Sand & Foam" and "The Madman." If you've got any old still-readable copies you don't need, please get in touch!
Per feedback, I'm tagging this #bookswap, #booktrade, and #booktrades!
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I don't know if this is really a thing on the Fediverse or not, but do people trade old books on here? Is there a book swap? Or even a digital little free library where all you pay is shipping?
I'm looking for some Kahlil Gibran books, particularly "Sand & Foam" and "The Madman." If you've got any old still-readable copies you don't need, please get in touch!
Per feedback, I'm tagging this #bookswap, #booktrade, and #booktrades!
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Ahead of Print in BFP: New review on postwar German book trade history. Peter Vodosek reviews Volume 4, Part 1 of the monumental series on the German book trade, covering 1945–1949 in the Western zones. #GermanHistory #BookTrade #PostwarEurope #LibraryStudies
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Ahead of Print in BFP: New review on postwar German book trade history. Peter Vodosek reviews Volume 4, Part 1 of the monumental series on the German book trade, covering 1945–1949 in the Western zones. #GermanHistory #BookTrade #PostwarEurope #LibraryStudies
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Ahead of Print in BFP: New article on 200 years of the Börsenverein published ahead of print. Peter Vodosek reviews a landmark volume tracing German publishing history via 216 essays from 1825–2025, spanning innovation, repression, and renewal. #publishing #booktrade #Germany #history #openaccess
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📢#OutNow in #OA: '#CheapPrint and #StreetLiterature of the #LongEighteenthCentury', edited by David Atkinson and Steve Roud.
This deeply researched collection offers a comprehensive introduction to the #eighteenthcentury trade in #streetliterature – #ballads, #chapbooks, and #popularprints – in England and Scotland.
Offering detailed studies of a selection of the printers, types of publication, and places of publication that constituted the cheap and popular print trade during the period, these essays delve into #ballads, #slipsongs, #storybooks, pictures, and more to push back against neat divisions between low and high culture, or popular and high #literature.
It will be of great value to scholars and students of eighteenth-century #popularculture and #literature, #print #history and the #booktrade, #ballad and #folk studies, children’s literature, and #socialhistory.
This #OpenAccess title is avalable at https://openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0347
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📢#OutNow in #OA: '#CheapPrint and #StreetLiterature of the #LongEighteenthCentury', edited by David Atkinson and Steve Roud.
This deeply researched collection offers a comprehensive introduction to the #eighteenthcentury trade in #streetliterature – #ballads, #chapbooks, and #popularprints – in England and Scotland.
Offering detailed studies of a selection of the printers, types of publication, and places of publication that constituted the cheap and popular print trade during the period, these essays delve into #ballads, #slipsongs, #storybooks, pictures, and more to push back against neat divisions between low and high culture, or popular and high #literature.
It will be of great value to scholars and students of eighteenth-century #popularculture and #literature, #print #history and the #booktrade, #ballad and #folk studies, children’s literature, and #socialhistory.
This #OpenAccess title is avalable at https://openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0347
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"Napoleonic Conspiracy Theories, Unsociable Shabbiness, And More Occupational Hazards Of The Second-Hand Book Trade" [2022], Literary Hub (https://lithub.com/napoleonic-conspiracy-theories-unsociable-shabbiness-and-more-occupational-hazards-of-the-second-hand-book-trade).
#SecondHandBooks #Bookshop #Bookseller #Books #BookTrade #London
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"Napoleonic Conspiracy Theories, Unsociable Shabbiness, And More Occupational Hazards Of The Second-Hand Book Trade" [2022], Literary Hub (https://lithub.com/napoleonic-conspiracy-theories-unsociable-shabbiness-and-more-occupational-hazards-of-the-second-hand-book-trade).
#SecondHandBooks #Bookshop #Bookseller #Books #BookTrade #London
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#Indie bookshop numbers hit 10-year high in 2022 defying brutal UK retail year
Lockdowns were good news for #booktrade as people read more and sought out #bookshops when they reopened
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It’s been a quarter century since I founded BookFinder.com, back during the Web 1.0 days.
Ken Whyte told some of that story, and the larger context around it, on his blog last year.
#Bookstodon #InternetHistory #BookTrade #BookFinder #AbeBooks
https://shush.substack.com/p/hot-deal-on-anne-frank-in-aisle-4
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It’s been a quarter century since I founded BookFinder.com, back during the Web 1.0 days.
Ken Whyte told some of that story, and the larger context around it, on his blog last year.
#Bookstodon #InternetHistory #BookTrade #BookFinder #AbeBooks
https://shush.substack.com/p/hot-deal-on-anne-frank-in-aisle-4
