Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association

Tim Egan and PNBA Award Winners

Hard Times at Elliott Bay Bookstore

Unlike thriving Amazon, Seattle's favorite wood-floored temple of books faces some possibly unsurmountable challenges.

Amazon Vs. Elliott Bay Book Co.: Winners and Losers

​Everyone is upset that Elliott Bay Book Co. might move from its Pioneer Square location, where it's been for 36 years, to Cap Hill or Ballard or someplace less touristy but with a more manageable rent. As owner Peter Aaron told The Seattle Times, business is way down in our recession economy, ... More >>

Indie Bookstores' Must-Reads of the Season: Pollan, Kidder, Horwitz, Zakaria, Mayer, Seely

One of these things is not like the other. And yet the most recent sales reports from indie bookstores in the Pacific Northwest confirm the startling truth, a truth that might very well make Alfred A. Knopf roll over in his leather-bound grave, that Mike Seely's debut novel, Seattle's Best Dive Bars ... More >>

PNBA Short List Announced

The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association gives its awards next spring. Last year, Sherman Alexie was among the winners for his The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. Notable among the writers below is Seattle's Garth Stein, whose The Art of Racing in the Rain was first featured at S ... More >>

Arts and Ends

The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association gives its awards next spring. Last year, Sherman Alexie was among the winners for his The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. Notable among the writers below is Seattle's Garth Stein, whose The Art of Racing in the Rain was first featured at S ... More >>

Local Authorpalooza!

Read enough about Alexie, Raban, Guterson, and Robbins? Beyond the usual suspects, the Northwest has a diverse array of authors working in all quarters and genres.

Books Quarterly: Why We Sold Our Bookstore

It's not so easy carrying out a labor of love when your industry is out to kill you.

As the Page Furns

New faces head Arts & Lectures and the Bookfest, and they're looking for ideas.