February 14, 2009 – 11:01 am
What’s more romantic than Paris in the winter and 500 or so quirky, independent booksellers? Happy Valentines Day! source: readersread.com
February 10, 2009 – 5:29 pm
For those of you wondering if Amazon’s Kindle 2, is the eReader for you, take a look. Sony vs Amazon: In this month’s issue (March) of More magazine, Sara Nelson, a former editor of Publishers Weekly, weighs in on both the Amazon Kindle ($400) and the Sony Digital Reader ($300). (I couldn’t find an online [...]
December 4, 2008 – 12:15 pm
Author Jessica James “Shades of Gray” in true David Letterman style shared with Amazon readers her Top Five Reasons Why Guys & Girls Should Give Books as Gifts. (source: Shelf Awareness) Top Five Reasons Why Guys Should Give Books as Gifts #5 She can’t connect with a new sweater like she can with a book. [...]
October 3, 2008 – 5:27 pm
For more information about National Banned Book week go to American Library Association website. The 10 most challenged books of 2007 reflect a range of themes And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson/Peter Parnell Reasons: Anti-Ethnic, Sexism, Homosexuality, Anti-Family, Religious Viewpoint, Unsuited to Age Group The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier Reasons: Sexually Explicit, Offensive [...]
September 22, 2008 – 7:48 pm
This post in today’s Shelf Awareness blog for book sellers caught my attention. If you love books and support Senator Obama, it seems like a win win to me…but I would act soon. More than 750 authors have contributed signed copies of their books to novelist Ayelet Waldman, who created Books for Barack, an online [...]
Borders Books is offering a 10% discount to AARP members on all hardbacks if purchased online before September 30, 2008. Go to www.borders.com/aarp for this and other great book promotions. Check out the book deals that the Free Stuff Center has to offer. DealOz.com searches over 200 online bookstores for the best price on any [...]
My interest in large print books began with a little fact I read that book sales are expected to remain flat for the next few years. One of the area’s to be hit the hardest is the mass market paperback industry. Apparently, small fonts on small pages don’t appeal to us baby boomers. This reminded [...]
A cool site. if you are always meaning to go to an author book reading, but never quite make it, is Titlepage.tv. This internet-only talk show is devoted to “passionate conversations about books”. Each episode brings four writers together under the umbrella of a shared theme, much the way authors are put on panels at [...]
April is national poetry month. It’s too late to celebrate Poem in Your Pocket Day which was April 17th but there’s still time to receive a poem a day delivered to your email address. Why was April chosen for National Poetry Month? With input from booksellers, librarians, poets, and teachers, the Academy chose a month [...]
Bookseller magazine’s Diagram Prize for oddest book title of 2007 goes to a self help book titled “If You Want Closure in Your Relationship, Start With Your Legs.” It’s author, Big Boom (a reformed pimp), receives a magnum of champagne and the additional publicity that surrounds the annual award. “‘If You Want Closure’, makes redundant [...]
