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Bookselling
Organization: Camino Books: For the Road Ahead
Date Posted: 9/1/2026
City: Del Mar
Primary Category: Bookselling
Overview: We are looking for an enthusiastic, energetic and experienced bookseller, who likes to help people, is good at handselling, and works well with others. Curiosity, intelligence, book knowledge, and liking other human beings, a must. Full-time and must be able to work one weekend day and some nights.
How to Apply/Contact: Please bring resume to Camino Books: For The Road Ahead, 1555 Camino Del Mar, Ste 114, Del Mar, CA 92014
Publishing
Organization: Arcadia Publishing
Date Posted: 10/27/2026
City: Charleston, SC - Fully Remote
Primary Category: Sales
Overview: Arcadia Publishing (Charleston, SC), the nation’s leading publisher of local interest books, is seeking a motivated and experienced publishing sales professional to expand sales and strengthen relationships with independent bookstores and specialty retailers across multiple categories.
How to Apply/Contact: Click here for more details and to apply.
Organization: Chronicle Books
Date Posted: 9/22/2026
City: San Francisco
Primary Category: Art & Entertainment
Overview: The role combines a strong commercial approach to Art & Entertainment acquisitions with particular responsibility for developing and strengthening Chronicle’s Art list, identifying distinctive projects, voices, and opportunities that can expand its reach. The ideal candidate is a proactive originator with a great eye, strong market instincts, deep industry connections, and a passion for discovering and developing projects that feel fresh, relevant, and unmistakably Chronicle. We are looking for someone with experience across traditional and novelty formats, excellent editorial and commercial judgment, and a collaborative spirit that thrives in a design-forward, team-oriented publishing environment.
How to Apply/Contact: https://recruiting.paylocity.com/Recruiting/Jobs/Details/4508728
Organization: Chronicle Books
Date Posted: 9/22/2026
City: San Francisco
Primary Category: Art & Entertainment
Overview: Chronicle Books is seeking an experienced and strategic Associate Director of Children’s Marketing and Publicity to lead overall list strategy and work directly with the team on title-specific campaigns and the School and Library market. Reporting to the Executive Director of Marketing and Publicity, this role helps shape strategy for the Children’s list and oversees campaigns across frontlist and backlist, including bestselling series Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site, Tiny T. Rex, and graphic novel program.
The Associate Director leads and develops the Children’s Marketing, Publicity, and School & Library teams, serves as a senior partner to the Children’s Publishing Group and cross-functional teams, and translates market and audience insights into campaigns that build awareness, support sell-in and sell-through, strengthen Chronicle Books’ marketplace position, and contribute to profitable growth.
The Associate Director will help establish the vision, goals, and strategy for Children’s marketing and publicity, serve as the senior Marketing and Publicity representative, identify trends and convert them into actionable strategies, establish team and campaign priorities, and communicate key strategies and information to Sales. They will lead integrated plans, oversee media positioning, collaborate with authors, illustrators, and agents, and identify, evaluate, and execute strategic partnerships with organizations. Other duties include managing the Children’s M&P team, fostering a culture of creativity, open communication, assessing workflows and team practices, and partnering with Editorial, Sales, Brand Design, and Social Media. In addition they will lead digital strategies for the Children’s list, guide Amazon A+ content, set strategic direction for school and library and bookseller outreach, and partner with Sales to understand account and channel needs and identify opportunities. Lastly they will partner with the Executive Director to develop and administer the annual Children’s marketing and publicity budget, manage tracking of campaign activity, and use sales reporting to identify trends, evaluate results, and improve decisions.
How to Apply/Contact: https://recruiting.paylocity.com/Recruiting/Jobs/Details/4396108
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Bookstore for Sale
Camino Books: For the Road Ahead (previously Diesel, A Bookstore at Del Mar Highlands Town Center, in Carmel Valley, San Diego) is up for sale! The recently moved, renamed, and renewed bookstore could be the best gift of the season!
Our beautiful store is the talk of Del Mar, and a haven for booklovers in North County. We are so excited about the new store but, unfortunately, we are having to step back. For personal reasons we are having to sell it and are hoping to find the right applicant for moving the store forward.
Originally from Oakland, we started as Diesel and have had 5 stores over our 37 year history. We sold our Brentwood store in LA in 2024, and renamed our Del Mar store and moved it in Spring of 2025.
Known for our excellent curation and vigorous events program, our stores have always worked with schools, concert venues, nonprofits, and institutions along with our daily supply of a diverse range of books to our communities.
We have over 90 years combined bookselling experience and have created internationally recognized bookstores. After many decades of passionate hard work, we now have to scale back and place the store in good hands.
We were drawn to open a store in North County out of our love for the area and the owners of Del Mar Plaza’s dedicated desire to have a great independent bookstore again. Del Mar has had a wonderful history of great bookstores over the decades, but had been sorely lacking one.
We, and the local businesses, families and customers who rely on Camino Books are hoping someone new will seize this opportunity to maintain a great bookstore in the area. Inquiries can be made directly to the owners by filling out the application here.
We are looking for new energy, passion and commitment to serve this wonderful community with all of its reading needs. We will help through the transition and look forward to keeping a great bookstore in Del Mar, as the village deserves.
We look forward to a smooth transition for the store once the right buyer is in place.
Happy Reading!
Alison Reid & John Evans