treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.
East Bay Booksellers
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We are a bookstore -- a good one, we think! -- selling new books -- good ones, we hope! -- in Oakland, California.
For what it’s worth to all these publishers, but esp indies like Europa, we will not stock your books (translated or otherwise) knowingly created via AI.
Adam Morgan@adamm0rgan.bsky.social · 3d agoFor @wired.com, I spoke with workers about the quiet push to experiment with AI tools from book publishing executives at the Big Five. www.wired.com/story/book-p...
For @wired.com, I spoke with workers about the quiet push to experiment with AI tools from book publishing executives at the Big Five. www.wired.com/story/book-p...
Book Publishers Are Quietly Using More AI. Staff Are Revolting
Workers at three major publishing houses tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech.
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It's worth noting that at EBB nonfiction accounts for roughly fifty of our 100 bestselling adult titles this year. Big thanks to you, our friends, for making us industry-defying!!
The Walrus@thewalrus.ca · 3d agoNonfiction sales are down, and publishers are quick to blame readers for wanting escapism over fact. But what if the industry’s own marketing and pricing decisions are driving the crisis? Essayist and contributing writer Tajja Isen investigates. thewalrus.ca/nonfiction-is-st...
hey guys it's liz! here to talk to you about cardboard
At a time when we’re compelled to react and respond to so much profound stupidity, we agree with Peter Miller that it behooves us all the more to make time and space for research. V. excited about this new arrival from @princetonupress.bsky.social ebbooksellers.com/item/6CvPe_C...
Research by Peter N Miller | East Bay Booksellers
A short, bold, and timely history and defense of research in the humanities and sciences and its incalculable importanceIf there were a single tool that could cure disease, improve the quality of huma...
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the funny thing about this of course is that "athenian democracy" was a cautionary tale to the framers, who saw it as unstable and prone to demagogues and tyrants like the one rubio works for
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d agothis Rubio speech feels a lot like a 2028 soft launch
It's a fine morning to re-share Anne Carson's brilliant essay about the recent Rosalía concert she attended. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Anne Carson · On Rosalía
We require heroism of our entertainers. We want them sacrificing themselves to a certain ultimate degree of input. No...
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New MacGuffin AND Translator magazine on the same day?! Makes our monthly battles with FedEx disputing duty on exempt imports like books and magazines worth it!
Spent yesterday afternoon celebrating the one-year anniversary of our friends & neighbors at Local Economy. The sky is the limit for the communities they're building. www.thelocaleconomy.com
Local Economy
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There’s no getting around the fact that there are going to be significant supply shortages the next couple of months. Major publishers tend to say this every year, but we reckon it may be on par with what we experienced in 2020.
You’ll be happy to know (I think) that tonight I crashed (accidentally, I promise!) a bookseller dinner for a hugely bestselling author. Congrats to you if you find the signed copy of her novel in our store.
So excited for this. We'll be playing co-host with Local Economy next door. Grab your ticket via them here, as their space often fills up! luma.com/tkc335gs
Conversations with Ursula K. LeGuin on writing · Luma
Ursula K. LeGuin is one of the greatest writers of the last century and one of the animating ancestors for Local Economy. We've been obsessed with her books…
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David Naimon@davidnaimon.bsky.social · 2w agoTin House is sending me on a mini-regional tour for the gorgeous reissue of Ursula K Le Guin: Conversations on Writing. Portland-Seattle-Bay Area friends I hope to see you. Come say hi and celebrate Ursula's legacy with me! @tinhouse.bsky.social @ursulakleguin.com @ebbooksellers.bsky.social
Presumably he will pay somebody to be embarrassed for him as well.
Matt Ford@mford.bsky.social · 3w agoEzra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
Wait wait wait … we weren’t even a “top five” best five bookstores in Oakland?! Tough crowd! Lol www.rockridgevoice.com/rockridge-wi...
Rockridge Wins Big in “Best of Oakland 2026”
Congratulations to the many Rockridge favorites who won, or placed in the top 5, in Oakland Magazine’s annual Best of Oakland Readers’ Choice Awards. All of the winners, announced in July and August 2...
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Meanwhile B&N is buying up large independent bookstores staggered by the size they at some point assumed was necessary to survive. Publisher consolidation has lulled a bit, but likely but for a moment. Distribution consolidation continues apace.
Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 3w agoEverything the pro-Trump billionaire Ellison family will now own: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central And more... With this comes the power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told. Shameful.
Unsure if it was in the interest of legibility or laziness, but typed up a shelftalker for Gabe Bullard's AGAINST CONVENIENCE. ebbooksellers.com/item/44euZQq...
On Thursday, eight bookstores sent an open letter to the ABA & ABFE raising urgent concerns about the threat posed by NSPM-7 to booksellers and publishers. @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social @burningbooks.bsky.social @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social @boneshakerbooks.bsky.social @wordupbooks.bsky.social
We have absolutely no idea where we're going to put these wickedly cool books + LPs from the Flee Project that just arrived today. But, by god, we're up for the challenge. ebbooksellers.com/lists/LaY5BP...
For what it's worth, we're actually keeping on top of the "Coming Soon" list on our website these days. And, look at that, there is some wildly cool things on the way ... and, indeed, arriving daily. ebbooksellers.com/lists/LUA2JI...
Ther ys no perfecte worlde but ther ys a bettir one
Literary fiction is coming. It is going to revolutionize the economy. We know that China has already got a start on literary fiction. We can’t afford to be left out of the literary fiction economy. Think of your kids. They might already be engaging with literary fiction.
Nobody asked, & hopefully somehow fewer even care, but I wanted to make it an official: we are not social media influencers.
A very cool array of events coming to Local Economy in September, for which we will be staying open to sell books ... the authors' (& others!) Tickets etc. at Local Economy's website: www.thelocaleconomy.com/events
What a great time we had at the @oaklandreviewofbooks.org launch party night at Eli's Mile High Club. "Always be launching," is the cheeky saying they've adopted, which we love. It's the lyrical embodiment of "vibes," in general and theirs specifically.
Final hours before @adriandaub.bsky.social discusses his latest book, “What Tech Calls Governing” at Local Economy at 6pm. luma.com/ppnhhbv2
It’s only been open a couple of weeks, but Niebla in SF’s Tenderloin district is already an essential bookstore stop for lovers of Latin American literature — particularly in Spanish. They are impeccably furnished and curated. Look at us being all influencer-y!! www.nieblasf.com
