'We looked a very long time for a company that would complement our own publishing line-up, and in Top Shelf we found the ideal match. 'The acquisition of Top Shelf is a milestone for IDW,' said company CEO Ted Adams. Leigh Walton will continue as Top Shelf's publicist and marketing director, Chris Ross as lead designer and digital director and Zac Boone as warehouse manager. His business partner, Brett Warnock, is retiring from the world of comics to explore business opportunities through his newly launched food and nature blog. Top Shelf will remain a distinct imprint within IDW, and co-founder Chris Staros will join the company as editor-in-chief, Top Shelf Productions. IDW Publishing has acquired Top Shelf Productions, the independent publisher of graphic novels whose list includes March by Congressman John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell, Alan Moore's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (with Kevin O'Neill) and From Hell (with Eddie Campbell). This hasn't been as daunting as I expected.' She and her husband found their 1987 vintage bookmobile on Craigslist.

'We're getting in on the ground floor, so we are going to mind all the rules and set a good example,' said Sukyi McMahon. In Austin, Sukyi and Patrick McMahon took advantage of a new mobile retailing ordinance passed by the city council last summer to open Fifth Dimension Books, 'a science-fiction focused bookstore in a bus that is parked most of the time at 43rd and Duval streets in the Hyde Park neighborhood,' the Business Journal reported.

'Doing a pop-up event made me realize I was in the wrong location to make sales,' she said. She tended to get 'coincidental' shoppers-those who were on the way to get pizza and stumbled on the store.' The idea to go mobile occurred to her in October when she had a successful pop-up store at Uncharted: The Berkeley Festival of Ideas. Berkeleyside reported that Davidson 'said the neighborhood was challenging. Owner Gina Davidson is closing Bookish Bookstore in Berkeley, but plans to transform her business into a mobile bookshop specializing in pop-up events. Taking their books on the road, booksellers in Berkeley, Calif., and Austin, Tex., have chosen the mobile bookselling route.

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