Our Storefront in Walla Walla

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  • _____321 East Main Street
    Walla Walla, Washington 99362
    1-866-630-4002
  • 509-525-4983
    earthlightbooks(at)gmail
  • (dot)com
  • Independent Bookstores Partner with Northwest University Libraries

    We sell books through a partnership with the Penrose Memorial Library at Whitman College in Walla Walla and Last Word Books sells books for the Friends of the Evergreen State College Library in Olympia. Proceeds from the sales of their books go to benefit the libraries and fund various student projects.

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    Thursday, June 4, 2009

    Earthlight Books & Last Word Books Road Trip

    That's right, Last Word Books, Earthlight Books, and Last Earth Distro are piling in to a book mobile and hitting the streets. If you're hitting any of the events we are, be sure to hit us up!

    * Portland Anarchist Bookfair, June 7th
    * Rose City Book Fair, June 12th & 13th
    * Allyn Days, July 18 & 19
    * Portland Zine Symposium, July 24th-26th
    * Northwest World Reggae Festival, August 8th-10th
    * Bumbershoot, September 5th-7th
    *Seattle Antiquarian Book Faire October 11th & 12th
    * Okanogan Family Barter Faire, 3rd weekend in October

    We hope to see you around!

    Thursday, January 22, 2009

    Visit Our New Website!

    New Things For Earthlight Books:

    We're swamped, as usual, with books.

    Our new website is up and running, check it out!

    www. earthlightbooks.com

    It includes the majority of our online inventory and will eventually include our in-store bestsellers and favorites as well.

    My valiant, dedicated father saved the roof, and all of Earthlight Books underneath it, this winter, from the terrible snows and ices of Eastern Wash.

    New book sales slowed considerably this year, but we saw a rise in used book sales that helped make up for the downturn. Luckily the old maxim rings true in times of trouble, books and booze always do well.

    Online sales are up substantially, as folks seem to have more time to read and less willingness to drive to the store (any store).

    Still trying to knit the bones of this empire together in a constructive, supportive way that will allow us to survive for many more moons and keep our loved ones well fed and well read!

    Thanks for your continued patronage! Thanks to those who have linked to our new site already! I will try to keep up, but if you'd like to trade links please let us know.

    -Sky, Webmaster and C.E.O. Extraordinaire

    Saturday, October 11, 2008

    It's Time for the 2008 Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair!

    We will be tabling at the Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair on October 11th and 12th, Saturday and Sunday, at the Seattle Center Exhibition Hall at 3rd Ave W and Mercer St near the Seattle Rep. If you're in the area please come by, pay us a visit and check out our impressive collection of eclectic literature. We will be at booth #307.

    This year we are specializing in: Western Americana, Underground & Counter-Culture Books, Vintage Paperbacks, and a fine assortment of Collectible & Antiquarian. Hope you can make it!

    View our featured items for this year's fair!

    We've been making small improvements to our website as of late, please stop by and check it out: www.earthlightbooks.com

    Monday, October 6, 2008

    See Live Humans Read!


    I couldn't resist posting this window 'hook' from the public library in Henrico County, Virginia. Props to whichever clever librarian on the premises came up with that one!

    I expect we will only see more of this kind of subversive, tongue in cheek advertising within the book marketing world in the days to come, what with the coming crop of highly creative biblio-media-philes entering the workplace (I went to school with a nice bunch of them at The Evergreen State College).

    Being in the slightly literary slice of a nation which, according to statistics I don't want to believe, doesn't read... makes me think we need to continue repackaging ourselves for the 21st century, as a movement of booksellers. And I know most of us loathe and bemoan even the slightest inkling of thinking in these sorts of terms, but I consider it vital to our livelihood and an important step in bringing books closer to those who are not armed with the ability to appreciate them.

    Saturday, May 10, 2008

    BEAR WITH US AS WE ENTER THE 21ST CENTURY

    Words have been few and far between this past year as our stores have geared up to bring our commanding presence online via our own e-commerce websites. Please be patient as we iron out all the kinks but pay us a visit every now and then as we get our site(s) off the ground.

    www.earthlightbooks.com

    Friday, October 12, 2007

    Join us at the Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair 2007!

    We will be tabling with our progeny-store Last Word Books, at this year's Antiquarian Book Fair in Seattle, at the Pavilion in the Seattle Center on Saturday and Sunday.

    View our choice items featured for the Fair.

    Sunday, August 12, 2007

    Illahee Resort Bad Business For Walla Walla

    Okay, so most of this is my own opinion I suppose, except for the links that is, but this just rings all wrong to me, as an intelligent human being who loves and supports local community and local economy. I mean come on, an out-of-town development corporation comes in, low-bids a chunk of land right next to our water supply, gets a cheaper price than any local residents, sells the first home to the Port Commissioner and wants to start some bourgeois
    golf course for out-of-town wine snobs?

    There's gotta be a better way to take their money and keep it in our town. Don't they read anything other than books on wine or art? Don't they shop at Earthlight? Don't they realize how cool we are already, without them? Granted, those books do cost a fair deal of money and we do like their money, but why sell out our land and water to another company from another state when we could capitalize on the scenario sustainably and locally and reap a higher percentage of the profits while we personally improve our own amazing town? We have so much history, why spend our heritage in some other store when we have our own silos to fill and share with our neighbors. And ya know what? I just don't wanna look at it every time I drive to my family's cabin that was built in 1919. Plain and simple. Just the way we like it?

    Here's some old articles I found, plus one new one. Sorry if any of the info is wrong now, I've just been pissed for awhile and stockpiling ammo. Sometimes, if the revolution takes a spell or two, the ammo gets rusty, or the spell fails to be cast.

    Walla Walla 2020's website

    Walla Walla 2020 keeps eye on area - this one's actually good news, I guess, especially since the UB printed it!

    New Golf Project Slated For Walla Walla

    Jacobsen Hardy to Commence Work on Walla Walla Course

    ‘Don’t Bend Walla Walla,’ locals argue


    Walla Walla doesn't want to be like Bend

    The Town That Doesn't Want to Bend: Walla Walla citizens see Bend as a model of how not to grow


    Here's Abito's Website


    more to follow, thanks for staying tuned over the tedious months