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• Indie Bookstore Survival

  
  NewPages Blog — Authority: 431
  Clay Shirky has some advice for local bookstores in his post Local Bookstores, Social Hubs, and Mutualization.
  21 hours ago

• Open-minded, liberal San Francisco bookstores won’t carry Sarah Palin’s book. Or will they?

  
  I Hate the Media Article Feed — Authority: 620
  Is Sarah Palin a victim of censorship by book sellers? Going Rogue , Sarah Palin’s book, is the biggest thing to hit America’s bookstores in years. It sold 300,000 copies its first day and the publisher has already increased the total print run to 2,500,000 copies. Bookstores across the country are cleaning up. ...
  1 day ago

• Useful Info about College Textbooks

  
  My Personal Finance — Authority: 129
  Are you in college or simply a retired clerk who either has to study or has time to study? All you need are the textbooks for developing your knowledge or scientific research monographs for becoming a specialist in the field. If you are a student you will have a chance to become a processional and build your career, ...
  2 days ago

• A Cappella Books’ 20th anniversary hopefully won’t be last

  
  Inside Access — Authority: 138
  It’s quite a year for indie book stores in Little Five Points. Charis Books and More recently celebrated its 35th anniversary , and A Cappella Books, its neighbor across Moreland, turns 20 on Dec. 1. Frank Reiss inside A Cappella Books in 2005. AJC file photo A Cappella will celebrate with an ongoing 20 ...
  3 days ago

• Shakespeare and Companys new literary mural

  
  Jacket Copy — Authority: 681
  The English-language bookstore on Paris left bank, Shakespeare and Company , has been a draw for generations of expatriate writers. That goes for both its first iteration, owned by Sylvia Beach, who was the original publisher of James Joyces "Ulysses," and the more recent version, opened in 1951 by George Whitman. ...
  3 days ago

• CrunchGear Gift Guide 2009: Wireless E-book Readers

  
  Technology Pundit — Authority: 168
  Were only about five weeks away from Christmas, so nows as good a time as any to talk about (drum roll, please) e-books. Amazon kick-started the e-book market (with apologies to earlier e-book readers) with the introduction of the Kindle in the fall of 2007.
  4 days ago

• Want To Try Out Google Chrome OS For Yourself? Here’s How.

  
  Technology Pundit — Authority: 168
  The public debut of Google Chrome OS today has the press abuzz over the potential of the new web-based operating system. And now that it’s open sourced, you have the chance to try it out for yourself. Unfortunately, most people aren’t ready to undertake the daunting task of actually taking Google’s recently ...
  4 days ago

• Old Books Fresh Eggs

  
  Book Patrol — Authority: 533
  Between Muddy Gap and the Lander, Wyoming lies Sweetwater Station home of the Mad Dog and the Pilgrim Booksellers. Population of Sweetwater Station: 5 Inventory of Mad Dog and the Pilgrim: 75,000 In addition to the books Lynda “Mad Dog” German and Polly “The Pilgrim” Hinds operate an "eccentric working farm" ...
  4 days ago

• Big Box Bookstore of the 1790s

  
  NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS — Authority: 532
  Charles Knight in Shadows of the Old Booksellers (published in 1865) tells us of a bookshop in Finsbury Square, Moorgate, named ‘The Dome of the Muses’ belonging to bookseller James Lackington:"A dome rises from the centre, on top of which a flag is flying…Over the principal entrance is inscribed "Cheapest ...
  5 days ago

• Questions That You Must Ask Yourself To Understand Whether You Can Trade Forex

  
  Make Cash Online Today — Authority: 151
  Emotions can work for us or against us. Sometimes they can save us from landing in a pile of sticky mess, but sometimes they can land us in it. We can also turn the tables around by playing tricks on our mind, making it believe whatever we want it to believe. Both internal and external battles can be fought and won ...
  5 days ago

• The French Town That Cant Let a Bookstore Die

  
  A Writer's Desk — Authority: 139
  Welcome to Poligny, a town of book lovers. From the piece in the Washington Post ... Just off the town square, a few hundred feet down La Grande Rue, a bookstore has been dispensing culture and entertainment to the people of Poligny for 150 years. Over the generations, residents said, it has become part of the ...
  5 days ago

• LibraryThing Offers Local Search

  
  Family Matters — Authority: 119
  I’m a big fan of LibraryThing and now there’s even more reason to love it! They recently introduced a new feature giving local bookstores the ability to include their inventory in the LibraryThing system so when you search for a book you can see if one of your local sellers has it. The local section also ...
  5 days ago

• Cost Of College Texbooks

  
  My Personal Finance — Authority: 129
  I would like to start by saying that there are many options for students who are looking for the textbooks for their studies. Nevertheless, there are many students on campus who do not know what to do with their used textbooks. However, there are a variety of different places where they can get some money for used ...
  6 days ago

• The Kindle Now In Canada. No Carrier Deal. No Jasper.

  
  INDEX // mb — Authority: 494
  Since last February I have been writing about the Kindle in Canada. Finally today Amazon announced they would sell the Kindle to us in the great white north. Great. So what took them so long? I reached out to both Amazon PR and Rogers for some answers. My first question was simple — is Rogers the official ...
  6 days ago

• Happy Independent Bookstore Week!

  
  Idealist in NYC — Authority: 415
  This week is the first ever NYC Independent Bookstore Week. It’s a great time to pay a visit to your friendly neighborhood bookstore, or to discover new ones around the city. Coordinated by the Independent Booksellers of NYC , the week includes dozens of author readings, signings, and other exciting events ...
  6 days ago

• thank you for your support

  
  Asian Art Museum Blog — Authority: 460
  In San Francisco, we’re used to hearing certain turns of phrase, perhaps to a point of weariness.  “Local-sustainable-organic” gets bandied about so much that a candle I just purchased advertises the appeal on its (post-consumerist) packaging.  But as fickle as we are, every action has an equal and opposite ...
  1 week ago

• Withers: Ten random thoughts

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  1. Dr. Bert Chapman writes nothing worth a darn; however, he doesn’t need to lose his gig at Purdue University. 2. I’ve taken the Human Rights Campaign to task many a time, but this morning a lift of the coffee cup for this website focusing on students at predominately black colleges and universities. 3. ...
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• A Literary Holiday Gift Guide: Best New Books on New York, New York

  
  Walking Off the Big Apple — Authority: 412
  Not surprisingly, New York as a subject generates a lot of books. Each year the shelves in the New York section of bookstores become overcrowded with new books about the city, each one adding something different to a vast body of city literature. This year the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudsons voyage to the New World ...
  1 week ago

• Sunday Salon - Bookplate Special by Lorna Barrett

  
  Lesa's Book Critiques — Authority: 131
  Ive always found that I learn so much about social issues, history, and the world from mysteries, so theyre perfect books for Sunday Salon. Lorna Barretts third book in the Booktown Mystery series, Bookplate Special , is not only the best in the series, but a book that deals with important issues right now. ...
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• From a Dragons Den: Independent Publisher Launches Today

  
  Home in the Highlands — Authority: 113
  The writing development officer for the highlands and islands has begun endorsing electronic publishing, so I think the Davids of the writing world are starting to line up with their wee sling shots at the Goliaths of the printing biz. I just learned about a brave new publishing venture: Dragon International ...
  1 week ago

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