Thread by @latimes, We explore the pandemic's major impacts on the book industryhttps://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-05-20/coronavirus-bookstores-writers-support-art-workers What will [...]

We explore the pandemic's major impacts on the book industry https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-05-20/coronavirus-bookstores-writers-support-art-workers

Coronavirus is already changing the book industry. Here's how

As California bookstores gradually being to reopen during the coronavirus pandemic, here's a closer look at the state of the industry.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-05-20/coronavirus-bookstores-writers-support-art-workers

What will the book industry look like on the other side of the pandemic?

Right now, many bookstores only have two options for selling books: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2020-03-25/how-the-coronavirus-will-change-book-publishing-now-and-forever

Book publishing confronts the coronavirus

Ebook sales are higher due to coronavirus, but bookstores are shutting down. In the end, Amazon wins.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2020-03-25/how-the-coronavirus-will-change-book-publishing-now-and-forever

Contactless, curbside service is one way struggling indie booksellers are working to stay afloat https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2020-05-21/bookstores-reopen-coronavirus-curbside-service

For booksellers in L.A., a partial reopening brings hope and anxiety

Like their peers across the U.S., booksellers in L.A. are adjusting to partially reopening their stores for curbside pickup amid the coronavirus.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2020-05-21/bookstores-reopen-coronavirus-curbside-service

Bookstores are working together to save themselves.

For instance, the California Independent Booksellers Alliance held a virtual town hall featuring a special guest to help them stay alive
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2020-05-21/bookstores-reopen-coronavirus-curbside-service

Major indie bookstores across the nation have collectively laid off more than 600 employees as a response to the coronavirus outbreak https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2020-03-17/across-la-booksellers-are-scrambling-to-stay-afloat-amid-coronavirus-concerns

Across L.A., bookstores close, scramble to stay afloat amid coronavirus concerns

Bookstores in L.A. are changing the way they sell amid coronavirus concerns. Most have closed but are offering curbside pickup and home delivery to customers.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2020-03-17/across-la-booksellers-are-scrambling-to-stay-afloat-amid-coronavirus-concerns

Inside the bookselling operation that managed to offer a tactile, interpersonal buying experience without paying a dime for retail space https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2020-04-23/pop-up-bookstore-sidelined-by-coronavirus

Their beautifully curated vintage-book pop-ups were thriving. Along came coronavirus

Nick Capizzi and Jenny Yang founded A Good Used Book in 2018 as an itinerant book-browsing mecca. Now they're surviving on hope and Instagram.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2020-04-23/pop-up-bookstore-sidelined-by-coronavirus

In an effort to keep struggling bookstores afloat, author James Patterson is offering some relief in the form of a hefty sum of money https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2020-04-02/bookstores-coronavirus-james-patterson

James Patterson donates $500,000 as independent bookstores struggle with coronavirus

Author James Patterson is donating $500,000 to help indie bookstores across the country. For many L.A. booksellers, that could be a life saver.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2020-04-02/bookstores-coronavirus-james-patterson

An online bookseller whose goal is to offer financial support to independent bookstores earned $1 million for local book shops across the country https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2020-04-29/coronavirus-bookshop-org-earns-1-million

Bookshop.org earns more than $1 million for indie bookstores

Earlier this week, Bookshop.org hit $1 million in earnings that will go to bookstores endangered by the coronavirus outbreak.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2020-04-29/coronavirus-bookshop-org-earns-1-million

Here is what some well-known authors are reading, hearing and watching in quarantine https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2020-04-08/what-authors-are-reading-and-watching-in-quarantine

What authors are reading, hearing and watching in quarantine

Authors like Lionel Shriver, Alexander McCall Smith, Laura Lippman and Steph Cha are under coronavirus quarantine too. Here's what they're reading.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2020-04-08/what-authors-are-reading-and-watching-in-quarantine

A look back at a project that helped make writers out of people who otherwise might never have had the chance https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2020-05-06/post-coronavirus-federal-writers-project

85 years ago, FDR saved American writers. Could it ever happen again?

On the anniversary of the birth of the Works Progress Administration, it's worth asking what a post-COVID Federal Writers Project might look like.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2020-05-06/post-coronavirus-federal-writers-project

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