BookPeople has been Texas’ leading independent bookstore since 1970. Located in the heart of downtown, BookPeople has been voted best bookstore in Austin for over 15 years. The rest of the country has caught on too; BookPeople was voted Bookstore of the Year by Publisher’s Weekly in 2005. With visits from some of the most interesting and important authors of the past 35 years, as well as by Former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, BookPeople is the destination bookstore in Texas.
BookPeople
603 North Lamar
Austin, Texas 78703
(512) 472-5050
I’m a long time ago BP veteran and just started a group on Facebook for the exes, the currents, and the wanna be Book People. Do a search for “Book People People” and come on over!
Hello
I have just returned back home to Sydney following a 2 week stay in Texas. I was lucky to have found you while staying in Austin. I saw a book that was located in the motoring section and had a black hard cover and I thought it had the word Speed on it. It also had drag racing hot rodding and more in with lots of cool pics. Can you plz tell me if you still have this and or what the title was
thanks
Hi John! We’ll look into it for you and send you an email.
good that bookpeople & the chronicle run the short story contest, though it seems they of all entities would value struggling writers and understand their worthiness. You would think they could allocate better prize money?!
The clock is ticking down…to…PRIVATE MIDNIGHT.
I have recently moved to Austin and am researching things of interest. I moved to Austin because of the free thinking spirit. I applaud the concept of an independent bookstore and that you have achieved such success. In this industry, the “big corporations” can chew us up and spit us out! I am self published and have experienced the challenges of trying to market my book. With stores such as yours, I now have renewed hope that I will have an opportunity to read excerpts of my book to book lovers. It’s short but potent and has left previous readers wanting more!!
Sincerely,
Walter Smith
Young People Press
please give this to Ellen on Wednesday:
THANKS ANSLEY
DEAR ELLEN:
AFTER READING YOUR “JACKIE” BOOK THIS WEEK, I WANT TO ASK YOU TO CALL OR EMAIL ME CONCERNING A BOOK
THAT WE COLD DO TOGETHER ALONG THE SAME FORMAT FOR A GREAT CHARACTER IN TEXAS.
I am contacting the family now for their permission.
We are anxious to speak to you or your agent
Thankyou
B. Ritz Barnes and Nobel Booksellers – Irving Texas
Hamshire Class of 1971
Barbara RITZ
UNIVERSITYEMEDIA@YAHOO.COM
CELL 216.780-1788
Can I just email Bookpeople a question about a material or book’s availability?
I want to know if they carry the magazine Men’s Ex. (fashion)
Thanks!
Congratulations on your 40th!! Keep on, keeping on! To whom should I speak about my Book Consignment, “Daddy King and Me,” non-fiction, about The Forgotten Father of the Civil Rights Movement, Jimmy Carter, Griffin Bell, Andrew Young are a few who appear on these pages!
MURRAYSILVER@hargray.com
Month after month, I’ve made my trek down to BookPeople because it was the place to find a wider span of reading choices. It was a rare month when I didn’t rejoice in finding something literally unavailable elsewhere in Austin. Now that joy is tainted. I found out that my friends and members of a very large and old respected group that help found Austin aren’t welcome. This is apparently because of some ignorant fundamentalist church teachings about the group that some of the staff (and perhaps the management based on the BookPeople blog) adhere to personally. It surprised me. And, it disappointed me greatly.
What exactly are you referring to? I promise that we welcome any person/ ideology into our store.
It would be a fabulous thing to combine the beautiful expericne of wandering through your store with the ability of buying the book I fall across in an electronic form on the spot, just as I would its paper version. RFID point and download? You all get your cut. Google gets their’s.
I’m actually a kindle person at the moment, so that is really my dream – that I could spend my money with Book People and you get the same cut as you do from the publishers as when I buy a paper version. I miss the “surprise” books I found on my regular Saturday morning meander through your store. But I am hooked on the electronic tool.
You promote Larry Flynt? We wont be back.
Sorry to hear you feel that way, Mark. We host authors with a variety of viewpoints, on a variety of subjects. We believe in providing an open forum for discussion and do not censor or discriminate. We believe everyone is entitled to their opinions and to free speech, just as you’re entitled to voice your opinion of Mr. Flynt
Your support of KXBT-FM 98.9 and Glenn Beck, the liar and hatemonger, is the reason I will never patronize your store. I hope other Austinites will join me.
Not sure what you mean by “support” of the radio station and Beck – do you mean because we sell Glenn Beck’s books? We sell a wide variety of books on every subject. BookPeople is a bookstore, a business, we are not making political statements with the books we stock on our shelves. The books you or anyone choose to read are a matter of personal opinion; a bookstore doesn’t make that decision for you simply by stocking a variety of titles. Some bookstores cater to a very specific reading taste, but BookPeople is a general bookstore, servicing as many readers as we possibly can.
And if you talk to our booksellers, you’ll be hard pressed to find one who will recommend a book written by Glenn Beck.
How come you don’t carry my book? First chicana novel to be published by the University of Texas Press. A finalist from the TIL in 2009. I love your store, and
you should carry my novel.
http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/books/rengol.html
Barbara Renaud Gonzalez
We’ll let our buyer know, thanks.
Barbara, good news! We DO carry your book. Here, you can see it on our website: http://www.bookpeople.com/book/9780292719583
My name is Missionary-Tracey Elaine Blair, a writer, and a write-in candidate for U.S. president,2012. Whenever convenienced….go to facebook.com to review my campaign platform. I love you and may God bless you too!
I nominated your blog for Versatile Blogger. Do with this what you will!
http://sailingthevoid.wordpress.com/2012/05/10/the-first-of-many-awards-versatile-blogger