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• New ILAB Website Makes Unofficial Debut

  
  Book Patrol — Authority: 517
  The International League of Antiquarian Booksellers ( ILAB )’s website redesign is now live on the Internet. In an open letter to visitors, ILAB President, Adrian Harrington , said: “After eight years with essentially the same website, we at ILAB have decided to give it a whole new look, with greatly improved ...
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• Bookshops Selling Old and Rare Books Are Becoming Old and Rare

  
  Reading Copy Book Blog — Authority: 560
  The JoongAng Daily takes a look at the dwindling number of bookstores around Korea that sell old and rare books.
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• Clay Shirky, Cory Doctorow on the future of the bookstore

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 645
  Clay Shirky posts on his blog about the recent open letter from the American Booksellers Association to the Justice Department, asking them to investigate Amazon, Wal-Mart, and Target for pricing best-sellers below $10. (Amazon’s $9.99 e-books in particular are singled out for comment.) The ABA believes that ...
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• Bookseller from Peckham wins Llewellyn Rhys Prize

  
  Reading Copy Book Blog — Authority: 560
  An author who works in a bookshop, called Review, in Peckham has won the John Llewellyn Rhys prize with her debut novel. It’s only worth £5,000 prize - I wouldn’t get out of bed for that kind of money - but I’m sure it’s well appreciated by Evie Wyld. Her book, After the Fire , beat Aravind Adiga and ...
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• Amazon wins on strategy and execution -- decisively

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 664
  Filed under: Consumer experience , Competitive strategy , Amazon.com (AMZN) , Sony Corp ADR (SNE) , Black Friday Black Fridays online sales were up 35% year over year, and early reports for Cyber Monday put the gain at 19.6% . Amazon ( AMZN ), as an online pure-play, has felt a lift from both these factors, ...
  4 days ago

• Shoppers flock to online checkouts like never before

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  • Internet retailers ready for a bumper Christmas • Books and iPods among the most popular buys Online retailers are expecting bumper internet sales this Christmas with more shoppers than ever logging on to buy iPods and the latest Dan Brown novel. Visa Europe predicted that today would be the busiest online ...
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• The Borders school of bookselling

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 164
  Borders wasnt always the bad guy of bookshops; my quest for stockists for Smoke magazine sheds some light on its demise "Sorry, but theres not enough about Kew in it." Hmm. I do wonder if stocking books only about Kew – novels, biographies, a delightfully minimalist range of Lonely Planets – isnt a smidge… ...
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• Borderss demise is not the end of the book world

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  The trade is going through convulsive changes, but some trends in British books actually point upwards Its tempting to see the end of Borders as another consequence of the hurricane that is hitting the usually tranquil boulevards of the British book world. Tempting, but wrong. Borders is a casualty of market forces ...
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• Today: Reading aloud before proceeding to the Jingle Walk.

  
  NA Confidential — Authority: 431
  The day-long marathon of Christmas story readings at Destinations Booksellers is under way as I type. The correct time for my oratory is 10:00 a.m., so if youre out and about, stop in. Of course, today is New Albanys Holiday Fest , and all week long the congenitally disaffected have valiantly sought to locate ...
  1 week ago

• One online bookshop to rule them all

  
  The Spicy Cauldron — Authority: 129
  Image via Wikipedia Like Sauron’s Ring, the notion of a single red-eyed Amazon sweeping all competing bookstores aside has long filled with me horror at the decades of darkness such domination could usher in for publishers and authors around the world, and, eventually, inevitably, readers as well. Don’t ...
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• LiteratEye #41 – Making a Killing in the Rare Book Business, Texas-Style

  
  The Art of the Prank — Authority: 134
  Here’s the forty-first installment of LiteratEye , a series found only on The Art of the Prank Blog, by W.J. Elvin III, editor and publisher of FIONA: Mysteries & Curiosities of Literary Fraud & Folly and the LitFraud blog . LiteratEye #41 – Making a Killing in the Rare Book Business, Texas-Style ...
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• Barbary Coast: Cheaper Books Come at a High Cost to Worthy Literature

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 899
  Holiday sales of hardcovers are the latest chapter in the nation’s culture wars, with corporate giants accused of trying to push political agendas.
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• Book trade: One chapter closes

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 164
  "Who will be ejected this week on The X Factor? What caused the Flash Forwards? Did the US army really employ a squad of goat-staring psychic spies?" the British bookseller Borders asked on its website yesterday, desperate to fill its 45 shops with Christmas customers. The company, an independent offspring of ...
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• Borders comes to the end of its chapter

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Hailed as a sure fire success, the bookstore chain was killed by Amazon and cut-price supermarkets When Borders arrived in the UK in the summer of 1998, the Spice Girls were riding high in the charts and Bill Clinton was categorically denying his relationship with "that woman". The American giant promised a ...
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• Weekender

  
  theCLog — Authority: 443
  Check out these events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area this weekend— as selected by the folks at Creative Loafing . Friday, Nov. 27 Jon Reep McGlohon Theatre Thanksgiving may have been yesterday, but comedian Jon Reep is still stuffed. Filled with humor, this winner of NBC’s Last Standing ...
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• You dont need to shop at Waterstones to appreciate it

  
  Books: Books blog | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 135
  It may not have been an unmixed blessing to bookselling, but its original staff continue to invigorate the trade – just not necessarily at Waterstones If Waterstones is implicated in the death of a certain sort of traditional bookshop – by helping, as Stuart Jeffries argued in his recent phillipic , to break the ...
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• Borders suspends website orders

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  • Bookshop chain cancels author signing • At least three distributors have stopped supplying retailer There were further fears for the future of Borders tonight after the struggling book and music retailer closed its website to new orders and cancelled at least one upcoming author signing in Bristol. So far, ...
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• vamp & tramp at UNC

  
  mint — Authority: 133
  Last Friday Vamp & Tramp , a bookseller from Alabama who specializes in handmade artist books, came to the UNC Art Department to show off some pieces from their collection. I drove to Chapel Hill (a whole 30 minutes, geez) to check it out, and spent about an hour and a half pouring over the 50 or so books they ...
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• Borders Books in the UK - troubled times

  
  IT'S A CRIME! (OR A MYSTERY...) — Authority: 121
  Sadly, before the day is out I suspect we will learn that Borders in the UK is in administration. It has been no secret that the group has been for sale for a while and it was reported that W H Smith ceased talks to buy 36 of their 45 outlets last Friday. If last week ended badly for Borders, this week started on an ...
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• The week to come: Clay pot catfish, GOP knee jerks, Chinese trade balance, Holiday Fest, Jingle Walk and a reading relay.

  
  NA Confidential — Authority: 431
  Thanksgiving Day is Thursday, and the Vietnam Kitchen awaits the Confidentials. There may be a George Clooney movie, too. I also have a column slot on Thanksgiving Day, and its been filed, sealed and delivered to Coach K. Dave Matthews will appeciate my compassion in defining the words he cant understand. He isnt ...
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