East Bay Booksellers
@ebbooksellers.bsky.social
We are a bookstore -- a good one, we think! -- selling new books -- good ones, we hope! -- in Oakland, California.
New you can use.
November 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
New you can use.
New limited edition totes coming by Friday!! Hope you like ‘em.
November 25, 2025 at 6:41 PM
New limited edition totes coming by Friday!! Hope you like ‘em.
The problem with the NYT 100
Notable Books isn’t the books. They’re mostly fine. Some are even great. It’s the same exceedingly narrow slice of publishing that it takes into account.
The small presses that pop up feel largely like credibility bolsters, but also almost jarringly out of place.
Notable Books isn’t the books. They’re mostly fine. Some are even great. It’s the same exceedingly narrow slice of publishing that it takes into account.
The small presses that pop up feel largely like credibility bolsters, but also almost jarringly out of place.
November 25, 2025 at 6:13 PM
The problem with the NYT 100
Notable Books isn’t the books. They’re mostly fine. Some are even great. It’s the same exceedingly narrow slice of publishing that it takes into account.
The small presses that pop up feel largely like credibility bolsters, but also almost jarringly out of place.
Notable Books isn’t the books. They’re mostly fine. Some are even great. It’s the same exceedingly narrow slice of publishing that it takes into account.
The small presses that pop up feel largely like credibility bolsters, but also almost jarringly out of place.
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If you like an author's work, the best thing you can do is buy it. The second best thing you can do is ask your local library to buy it. Or, do both!
A reminder that the median book deal for a debut author in the UK is £7000, paid over 12-18 months. (from 2022 Society of Authors report). Some of your favourite writers are struggling. societyofauthors.org/2022/12/06/a....
A profession struggling to sustain itself - The Society of Authors
ALCS report on author incomes shows 60% drop in median incomes since 2006
societyofauthors.org
November 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM
If you like an author's work, the best thing you can do is buy it. The second best thing you can do is ask your local library to buy it. Or, do both!
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"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
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November 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
Just added a temporary holiday popup note to the website. Get ‘em while the gettin’s good!
November 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Just added a temporary holiday popup note to the website. Get ‘em while the gettin’s good!
The Year That Was at East Bay Booksellers -- Plus Holiday Catalogs!
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November 22, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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Drooling over the @ebbooksellers.bsky.social holiday catalog! So many goodies here (including several of ours!)
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Holiday Catalog 2025
Holiday Catalog 2025
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November 21, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Drooling over the @ebbooksellers.bsky.social holiday catalog! So many goodies here (including several of ours!)
simplebooklet.com/holiday-cata...
simplebooklet.com/holiday-cata...
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Congratulations to Omar El Akkad for winning the 2025 National Book Award in Nonfiction! ICYMI: Omar's appearance on the show was one of the great all-time conversations so far.
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/omar...
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/omar...
Omar El Akkad : One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This - Tin House
In late October 2023, weeks into Israel’s bombing of northern Gaza, the novelist Omar El Akkad retweeted a video taken by a Gazan man. This video showed a lifeless moonscape with endless empty streets...
tinhouse.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Congratulations to Omar El Akkad for winning the 2025 National Book Award in Nonfiction! ICYMI: Omar's appearance on the show was one of the great all-time conversations so far.
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/omar...
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/omar...
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Beyond chuffed to see a half dozen @stanfordpress.bsky.social titles featured here - thanks so much for the support! #holidayreads #ReadUP @ebbooksellers.bsky.social
After a year’s hiatus, I’m very excited to unveil this years winter holiday catalog. Chock-full of favorites & curiosities — an assemblage that we hope is representative of our small store. If you like, please share!
simplebooklet.com/holiday-cata...
simplebooklet.com/holiday-cata...
Holiday Catalog 2025
Holiday Catalog 2025
simplebooklet.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Beyond chuffed to see a half dozen @stanfordpress.bsky.social titles featured here - thanks so much for the support! #holidayreads #ReadUP @ebbooksellers.bsky.social
After a year’s hiatus, I’m very excited to unveil this years winter holiday catalog. Chock-full of favorites & curiosities — an assemblage that we hope is representative of our small store. If you like, please share!
simplebooklet.com/holiday-cata...
simplebooklet.com/holiday-cata...
Holiday Catalog 2025
Holiday Catalog 2025
simplebooklet.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:50 PM
After a year’s hiatus, I’m very excited to unveil this years winter holiday catalog. Chock-full of favorites & curiosities — an assemblage that we hope is representative of our small store. If you like, please share!
simplebooklet.com/holiday-cata...
simplebooklet.com/holiday-cata...
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This is a 52-pound 9000+ page accordion-bound artist’s book of Donald Trump’s lies, conceived, printed, and bound by Jill and Ray Nichols of @leadgraffiti.bsky.social in Delaware. Each of the 9000 pages has the text (per the Washington Post) of one or more of Trump’s lies; none are repeated.
November 15, 2025 at 7:09 PM
This is a 52-pound 9000+ page accordion-bound artist’s book of Donald Trump’s lies, conceived, printed, and bound by Jill and Ray Nichols of @leadgraffiti.bsky.social in Delaware. Each of the 9000 pages has the text (per the Washington Post) of one or more of Trump’s lies; none are repeated.
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I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ...
423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...
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November 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM
I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
As Trump Targets Antifa in U.S., Rubio Labels European Groups as Terrorists
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:48 AM
We sold 100+ copies in Oct (a lot for us) during our campaign of giving it away for free. Always a good reminder: there are more of us than it sometimes feels like.
My Antifa book is on the New York Times Bestseller list 8 years after publication.
Thank you to everyone who has supported me (and my family) in so many ways (including buying books). #NoPasarán
Thank you to everyone who has supported me (and my family) in so many ways (including buying books). #NoPasarán
November 14, 2025 at 8:39 PM
We sold 100+ copies in Oct (a lot for us) during our campaign of giving it away for free. Always a good reminder: there are more of us than it sometimes feels like.
Sure, it's deader than dead out & about, for good reason, but have you ever hung out in a mostly empty bookstore listening to ambient music browsing the shelves? 5-stars, no notes!
November 13, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Sure, it's deader than dead out & about, for good reason, but have you ever hung out in a mostly empty bookstore listening to ambient music browsing the shelves? 5-stars, no notes!
One of the perks of bookselling is you sometimes get invited to sell at very cool things.
November 13, 2025 at 1:57 AM
One of the perks of bookselling is you sometimes get invited to sell at very cool things.
This present timeline we‘re all on may be awful, but dammit at least it still has dandies!
apnews.com/article/louv...
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Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:43 PM
This present timeline we‘re all on may be awful, but dammit at least it still has dandies!
apnews.com/article/louv...
apnews.com/article/louv...
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"The average voter believes a SNAP recipient gets $20/day, more than 3 times the actual amount of $6."
November 8, 2025 at 12:43 AM
"The average voter believes a SNAP recipient gets $20/day, more than 3 times the actual amount of $6."
Cue the Curb Your Enthusiasm song.
ICYMI: Microsoft’s charge “implies a more than $12 billion quarterly loss at OpenAI, said Firoz Valliji, an analyst at Bernstein.”
That “would mark one of the largest single-quarter losses for a tech company in history.”
@jessefelder.bsky.social $MSFT
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That “would mark one of the largest single-quarter losses for a tech company in history.”
@jessefelder.bsky.social $MSFT
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
November 7, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Cue the Curb Your Enthusiasm song.
It’s cults all the way down.
Musk gets his $1 trillion compensation package approved by Tesla shareholders.
Shareholders in the room chant "Elon, Elon, Elon!"
Shareholders in the room chant "Elon, Elon, Elon!"
November 6, 2025 at 10:13 PM
It’s cults all the way down.
Had a blast tonight at our public “in conversation” event dishing about bookselling and pitching off the beaten path books we and Point Reyes Books are championing this winter. Kindred bookstores unite!
November 6, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Had a blast tonight at our public “in conversation” event dishing about bookselling and pitching off the beaten path books we and Point Reyes Books are championing this winter. Kindred bookstores unite!
This month, we will be donating our profits from sales on Sundays to the Alameda County Community Food Bank.
This nation’s present leadership, which we already knew to be venal, are committed to yet more vile acts against our most vulnerable neighbors.
This nation’s present leadership, which we already knew to be venal, are committed to yet more vile acts against our most vulnerable neighbors.
November 5, 2025 at 7:41 PM
This month, we will be donating our profits from sales on Sundays to the Alameda County Community Food Bank.
This nation’s present leadership, which we already knew to be venal, are committed to yet more vile acts against our most vulnerable neighbors.
This nation’s present leadership, which we already knew to be venal, are committed to yet more vile acts against our most vulnerable neighbors.
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Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.
June 25, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.