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Today Was a Good Day
1) We opened! (phew) And we thought that would be the highlight of the day. Quite an accomplishment considering we only had FOUR days to move-in. But then, forty-five minutes before opening, a man started waving his umbrella outside the door, so we let him in and sold 5 books. Huzzah! Thanks, Jacques! 2) At the last minute, we made our Kickstarter goal. Thanks go out to all who contributed and helped to promote! (especially those who threatened to retract their friendship from those who didn’t back us.) We...
Kickstarter
After a few snafus with being able to announce the space, video creation (we’re book people), bank account verification issues…our Kickstarter project is finally up! And we could really use your support. The costs for this project keep rising. According to our current calculations, we will need to sell more than 6,000 books to break-even. Please consider backing us on Kickstarter and please share the project with others. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet...
No, it’s not too late!!
In the last couple of days, many emails have shown up in the Fleeting Pages Inbox asking if it is too late to send work, create an event/workshop, become involved, or volunteer in the store. The answer is: No, it’s not too late!! We love that this project, what it will be in the end, is being created by so many different people from all over, through the work they are sending and their generous offers of talents, ideas, time, well-wishes…. With each new each new addition, Fleeting Pages...
The Location is…
Fleeting Pages can finally announce the location: The former Borders in the East Liberty neighborhood of Pittsburgh. Both floors of the space. All 24,000 sqft of it. And lucky for us, Borders left behind a considerable number of bookshelves and other useful materials. A big thank you to Steve Mosites and his team, especially Mike Gallup, for being open to the idea and working with Fleeting Pages to make this happen! More interior photos can be found on the Gallery Page and the Fleeting Pages Facebook Page Address and...
Date Change: MAY 7th
In the past three weeks, Fleeting Pages has taken on a life of its own and has grown in size. The response has been amazing. New books, zines, comics, journals, art, workshop ideas, events, are coming in every day from all over. To make sure there is enough time to move everything in and to set-up the space, the opening day had to be changed from April 30th to Saturday MAY 7th. Take a look at the In Stock page to see the list of confirmed publishers, writers, artists…so...
Bibliopolis- Building Independents
Thanks to Luke Lozier and his partners, Bibliopolis will be helping out with the Fleeting Pages online store. So for all of you that want to support the project, but can’t be in Pittsburgh during the month of May, you can do so from as far away as you are. With offices in Pittsburgh and Berkeley, Bibliopolis offers e-commerce website design, development, and hosting services for independent, used and rare booksellers. Our clients include some of the world’s renowned booksellers as well as the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America....
Cursor & Red Lemonade
Thanks to the amazing Richard Nash, Fleeting Pages is very excited, and very humbled, to announce that our first confirmed sponsor is the community publishing platform Cursor, along with its first community Red Lemonade!! They recognize that as the old industrial supply chain side of books goes away, an ecosystem of writing and reading is arising in its place. In this case, quite literally. Go to Richard Nash’s blog to see artist Austin Kleon‘s illustration depicting Cursor & Red Lemonade. It’s brilliant. From the Cursor website: Transforming the social...
The Idea
In essence, Fleeting Pages consists of taking over (taking back??) one of the spaces, left empty by a failed big box bookstore in Pittsburgh, for one month, starting May 7th, and filling it with independent & self-published work of all kinds, book arts, workshops, events, and..?(insert your ideas here)?… All revolving around various forms of written self-expression. The idea is a result of a few things; the toll taken on local booksellers by big box bookstores, a concern for the cultural effects of big box stores in both their...