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Did COVID Bring Certain Death or New Life to Independent Bookstores in the PNW?

By LeeAnn Rooney

March 23, 2022 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Did COVID Bring Certain Death or New Life to Independent Bookstores in the PNW?

Things were also changing for Rachelle Markley, the owner of Crooked House Books and Paper. She said that walk-in traffic dropped off, but luckily she had always been selling online, her biggest presence being on Etsy. During March of last year, she fully expected not to make it when people were “hoarding beans and toilet paper;” she did not think that people were going to open their wallets and start buying “weird collectible books,” yet somehow the pandemic has been really good for online book sales.

Filed Under: Marketing Tagged With: April, Covid, creativity, eCommerce, independent bookstore, livestream, lockdown, Marketing, neighbors, normal, Online, PNW, Portland, positive, return, Support, updates, viability

A Tale of Three Comic Shops

By Dustin Prisley

February 25, 2022 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

A Tale of Three Comic Shops

Central Portland is home to a number of fine comic shops, but three stand out for their diverse approaches to community-building and serving particular niches of the comics market.

Filed Under: Marketing Tagged With: books, books with pictures, comic shops, comic store, comics, comics community, culture, excalibur, excalibur comics, floating-world comics, graphic novels, Portland, sequential art, signings

Where To Read a Book in Portland After Dark

By Tara McCarron

December 31, 2021 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Where To Read a Book in Portland After Dark

Everyone loves to read in coffee shops; a warm cup of coffee or tea and soft jazz piping through the speakers—what’s not to love? The problem is that all the coffee shops tend to close in the afternoon or early evening. When the sun goes down in the city, where’s a book lover to go?

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: bar, beer, book, cocktail, drinking, night reading, Ooligan, Portland, whiskey

Casting the Spotlight on Third Eye Books, Portland’s Only Independent, Black-owned Bookstore

By Jenna Amundson

December 15, 2021 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Casting the Spotlight on Third Eye Books, Portland’s Only Independent, Black-owned Bookstore

About once a month I visit Third Eye Books, Portland’s only independent, Black-owned bookstore. Located right off Division Street and 33rd Ave in inner SE Portland, this delightful bookstore is tucked away inside an old Portland house.

Filed Under: Marketing Tagged With: black-owned, booksellers, bookstores, independent, Portland, Third Eye Books

Why Featuring Andy Ngo’s New Book at Powell’s Is a Big Deal

By Rylee Warner

November 12, 2021 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Why Featuring Andy Ngo’s New Book at Powell’s Is a Big Deal

Let me provide some context for why Portlanders do not want Ngo’s book in a bookstore that prides itself on being a Portland staple and how Powell’s response is not appeasing many residents.

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: Andy Ngo, Antifa, censorship, freedom, indie, Local, Portland, Powells, protest, speech, Unmasked

New Indie Book Releases for Every Kind of Coffee Lover

By Sarah Moffatt

November 1, 2021 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

New Indie Book Releases for Every Kind of Coffee Lover

I’m not sure about you, but I’m a huge fan of coffee and a good book. If you’re reading this, you’re probably searching for the perfect new release to go along with that expertly bitter cappuccino or that tantalizing sweet mocha with five pumps of caramel. If you’re tired of your usual read and want to support some wonderful indie publishers, fear not: I’ve compiled a list of four new indie releases for every kind of coffee enthusiast, from the purists to the embellishers.

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: books, coffee, coffee house, cozy, indie, memoir, mystery, new releases, Portland, publisher, Reading, romance, true crime, writing, YA

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