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• Six Things for a Signing

  
  Read Write Believe — Authority: 488
  Six things from my book signing at Hooray for Books!, a wonderful independent childrens book store in Alexandria, Virginia: 1) People showed up!  You may laugh at my anxiety, but authors fear the unattended book signing like they used to fear searching for a friendly lunch table on the first day of a ...
  6 hours ago

• Another Sad Loss: Bailey Coy Books

  
  NewPages Blog — Authority: 136
  Snagged from jseattle, blog reporter fro the CHS Capitol Hill Seattle Blog:Michael Wells, owner of indie Capitol Hill bookstore Bailey Coy Books and a prominent member of the Hill business community, announced that he is closing doors on the shop at the end of November.jseattle interviews Wells in his most recent ...
  9 hours ago

• 25 Luftballoons

  
  E is for Erik — Authority: 108
  Happy 25th Anniversary to St. Pauls finest childrens bookstore! The Red Balloon Bookshop celebrates 25 years this month.
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• Education Books

  
  My Personal Finance — Authority: 127
  College semester coming is an inevitable thing that brings with itself many cares. However, there is a number of ways how students may save on tuition. In fact, buying used textbooks in an option. Various online bookstores offer a wide choice of textbooks that range in price and editions. Yet, before actually buying ...
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• Built Books on Architecture Reabsorbed by Swipe

  
  INDEX // mb — Authority: 423
  When I was at SWIPE books earlier today I saw that their architecture focused spin-off, BUILT was no more. They have reabsorbed the inventory back into the main store. No surprise really. It is hard to run a satellite even when it is down the hall. The great selection is still available, just the street exposure and ...
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• Pat the Picasso – The ‘Touch the Art’ Board Books for Young Children

  
  One-Minute Book Reviews — Authority: 474
  I haven’t written about board books for a while, in part because the good ones seem to be getting rarer: More and more, these books for babies and toddlers rip-off bestsellers for older children instead of doing what they alone can do. But in today’s Wall Street Journal Megan Cox Gurdon writes about a series ...
  2 days ago

• Showtime to adapt Augusten Burroughs "Dry"

  
  Between the Covers — Authority: 130
  At least, thats what Burroughs told the audience during his Friday night appearance at Books & Books in the Gables.  So dont get rid of your cable just yet (plus, you can watch the fabulous Edie Falco in Nurse Jackie on Showtime as well, another sublime TV pleasure). Anyway, Burroughs was funny and ...
  2 days ago

• Just noticed: Indigo.ca Has a New EVP

  
  INDEX // mb — Authority: 423
  Photo by LexnGer The good folks at Chapters/Indigo made some changes to their website this week. Among the noticed differences is the change to the Management listing for the company . Michael Serbinis, Chief Information Officer, is no longer listed on the company roster. Nor is  Senior Vice President for Online ...
  3 days ago

• Keep Calm and Carry On?

  
  The Casual Optimist — Authority: 122
  There is nothing quite like pricing to get book people’s pulses racing and the recent price war in the US — and the American Booksellers Association’s open letter to the Department of Justice — certainly has everyone and their mother all aflutter. We have plenty of pricing issues of own in Canada. The ...
  4 days ago

• Black Oak Books Returns

  
  The Daily Clog — Authority: 482
  When Black Oak Books, one of our favorite used book locations, closed its doors while mentioning vague plans to re-open , we thought they might be in store for an agonizing, drawn-out decline, à la Cody’s Books. However, it appears that is not the case, at least not for the time being. The store has purchased a ...
  4 days ago

• The Big Bad Wolf Book Sale Will Huff And Puff And Blow Your Budget Away...

  
  Eye on Everything — Authority: 465
  Book addicts beware. The Big Bad Wolf Book Sale is coming back, so you better lock up your wallets and purses in houses of bricks (not straw or wood), or it will huff and puff and blow your budget away. No, this is not good news at all, especially book addicts like me who cant resist cheap books. Remember the last ...
  4 days ago

• it’s that time of year again

  
  Collection Developments @ Sno-Isle — Authority: 128
  PW and Amazon released their top lists for the year. for the first time, PW includes a top 10 (both fiction and nonfiction) which has no overlapping titles with Amazon’s top 10 (devoted solely to fiction and literature). Amazon’s Top Ten for 2009 : “Let the Great World Spin: A Novel” by Colum McCann ...
  5 days ago

• Walmart, Target, and Amazon drop book prices -- and distributors get spanked

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 790
  Filed under: Economy , Media , Wal-Mart Stores , Target Corp. , Amazon.com, Inc. When a price war erupted last month among Amazon ( AMZN ), Wal-Mart ( WMT ), and Target ( TGT ) on select anticipated blockbuster books -- new titles by Sarah Palin, James Patterson, Stephen King, and Barbara Kingsolver -- it ...
  5 days ago

• Picturing the London Book Trade

  
  Wessel & Lieberman — Authority: 103
  Bernard Shapero "Bookdealing must be amongst the most wonderfully eccentric professions on Earth" - Mike Tsang Photographer Mike Tsang had recently returned to London from a demanding project in the Sudan when he popped in to visit his friend who was then manager of the Biblion bookshop in London. By the ...
  5 days ago

• A Bookworms Paradise

  
  THOUGHT PATTERNS — Authority: 423
  I used to work in a smallish independent bookstore and it was truly one of the best jobs I ever had. To be surrounded by endless glorious volumes, to enter every morning into this multicolored world of words and pictures was truly a pleasure.   I loved rearranging shelves (endlessly), lining the ...
  5 days ago

• The Pre-Holiday Site Release is Live at Chapters.Indigo.ca

  
  INDEX // mb — Authority: 423
  I am digging the new navigation . And a new purchase path too. Great work.
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• Pretending to Know Consumer Electronics When You Don’t

  
  INDEX // mb — Authority: 423
  When the Nook hit the media, I was said wow. Whoever the old stodgy book retailer put in charge of this product really knew their stuff. Where did this guy come from? The dual display was nice but running Android was the dead give away that a geek was in the building. It turns out B&Ns product development wasn’t ...
  6 days ago

• George Orwells Bookshop Memories

  
  A Writer's Desk — Authority: 136
  George Orwell worked at a used bookstore at a point in his life. He wrote about his experiences. From the charming piece ... When I worked in a second-hand bookshop — so easily pictured, if you dont work in one, as a kind of paradise where charming old gentlemen browse eternally among calf-bound folios — the ...
  6 days ago

• Find Out More Info About Cheap Textbooks in this Blog Publication

  
  My Personal Finance — Authority: 127
  If you are a college student, than you are familiar with the problem of high prices for those textbooks your college professors require from you. Usually, a student spends about $1000 a year for the textbooks. Even if you bought your books and then sold them as used, you return only 20% to 40% of the original cost. ...
  6 days ago

• Children in Bookstores – Oh my….

  
  Bookshop Blog — Authority: 112
  No One Cares This chapter is sort of a side-note to everything that is being discussed in this book.  Of course, with a good selection, fair pricing, and a nice store, most everyone will appreciate your products and what you are doing as a bookseller. However, they don’t care at all about your books and sundry ...
  1 week ago

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