Google Book Search Allowing Downloads of Some Books
From Ars:
When Google Print was first unveiled, it was clear that the site would become an amazing resource. It provided full access to books that were already out of copyright, but only if you viewed them online, one page at a time. What people most wanted, though, was the ability to download full PDF versions of the books, which they could read or print at their leisure and on their own machines. Oh, and they wanted Google to provide this free of charge.
Google went ahead and did it. Books no longer in copyright are now available for download from the Google Book Search site.
Wow. Google strikes again, in a big way.
Eric Schmidt, Google’s CEO, joining Apple’s board is an interesting thing, too. They certainly have become the company to watch.…
Posted by Giles, Friday, September 1, 2006, at 12:36 AM.
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Amazon: Yuk
As you’ll recall, I blogged on Kite Runner a while ago. As usual, when it came to finding a graphic to use for the post, I started with Amazon — because when they don’t use the “search inside” feature, their pictures are the largest and best quality. (The Kite Runner image wound up coming from elsewhere, FYI.)
Unfortunately, that also means that I get a ton of trash emails from Amazon. Why?
We track items that you may be interested in for price reductions so that you don’t have to. These additional savings on top of our everyday low price may only be available for a limited time, so act now to take advantage of this alert. Prices can go back up at any time and may never be this low again.
Here’s what they “encouraged” me to purchase today:
Yuk isn’t nearly strong enough. I’m glad I haven’t eaten yet.
There’s a dividing line between people who think that Amazon’s tactics are perfectly legit and those who think it’s invasive. I’m among the latter — especially since Amazon’s been rumored to want to include more personal info from third-party sources to create “super-profiles” of their shoppers, “protected” by privacy rules the company sets — rules not dissimilar to those at AOL, for instance.
I’d like to state for the record that I never purchase from Amazon. I use their web system for my own advantages — tracking bestsellers, looking at covers, researching titles sent to me, etc. — and then never buy from them. Heheh. Take that, Amazon!
Now if I could just come up with a similar way to take advantage of Wal-Mart.…
Posted by Giles, Wednesday, August 16, 2006, at 10:32 AM.
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BEA Podcasts Available
If you weren’t able to attend BookExpo America 2006 in Washington DC this year, we now have a valuable FREE service from the show — Podcasts from BEA.
We have recorded approximately 24 of the favorite events and sessions and will release them as podcasts over the next couple of months.
Plus, our roving reporter has captured some special interviews in his quest to find out “What’s the Buzz” at BEA this year.
Please visit www.bookexpocast.com where you can subscribe to our podcast by email, iTunes or other popular podcast software. We also have a complete list of our scheduled podcast events under “Upcoming Podcasts” on the site.
I’ve spoken with a couple of people who went to BEA this year; both said it was “underwhelming” and “not as busy as usual.” Anyone else want to venture an opinion?
Posted by Giles, Tuesday, June 6, 2006, at 12:40 PM.
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Handsome Books
Martin Holden writes:
I just recently discovered your site. It’s great! I’ve been enjoying exploring the postings (I finally learned what “french flaps” are!), as well as your interesting links. [Thank you! —Giles] At the risk of appearing self-promoting, I’d like to share my own antiquarian book site with you.
It’s an unusual site in that the focus is on publishers’ bindings (AKA trade bindings), an almost-forgotten area of the graphic arts. What’s also unusual is that all of the listings are illustrated, so it’s fun just to explore, visually. I currently have up a special list on the influence of Japanese art on book design. In an upcoming list, I’m going to be contemporary publishers’ bindings.
There’s some wonderful items on the site — indeed, I had a great time wandering around. Seems others have, too, as my absolute fave has already been sold…:
$35. Nice — congrats to the new owner. Beautiful, beautiful style to this title from 1902. Cover design by Sarah Wyman Whitman.
Handsome Books, indeed. Thanks for letting us know, Martin!
Posted by Giles, Tuesday, April 4, 2006, at 2:06 PM.
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Graphic Style
The always-interesting (and astonishingly prolific) Steven Heller teams with Seymour Chwast for 2001’s new edition of Graphic Style, a cover that has worn very well:
Currently on sale at Labyrinth for $11. A nice (and long-overdue) addition to the bookcases.
Big thumbs up to my mother for bumping into and getting this. Sweet Mom.
Update: Amazon has the older version listed, but only a puny little illustration of the cover. Would be nice to do a side-by-side — will keep looking.
Posted by Giles, Thursday, March 30, 2006, at 9:40 PM.
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Theme of the London Book Fair
…was “what technology can do,” says the New York Times.
Margaret Atwood’s robotic arm seems especially amusing.
Posted by Giles, Wednesday, March 8, 2006, at 11:35 AM.
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Sometimes Not
Was in B&N yesterday, purposely trying to get myself back into thinking about design and photography in my spare time — trying to put the difficult past few weeks behind me.
Perhaps it’s my still-snarly state of mind, but I didn’t see any titles in their new releases section that I liked; wandered the aisles for a while, perused a magazine or two (why is it British car mags have such better design than ours?), and eventually wound up flipping through this:
I’m sorry that the first book design post in a while is a negative one, but this is horrible. While it’s not a bad picture of President Carter, looking serious and concerned (though the mixed plaids are annoying), the use of type has serious shortcomings. Oh, to have time to host a redesign competition…!
Posted by Giles, Monday, December 12, 2005, at 8:03 AM.
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Congrats, Tim!
Timeless Toys, formerly known as The Playmakers, on USA Today’s front page yesterday:
Nicely done, Tim Walsh.
Posted by Giles, Friday, December 2, 2005, at 5:04 AM.
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Armchair Advice: What Small Bookstores Can Do
In my research, reading, and imagining, I’ve come up with a list of changes small bookstores can use to increase profits and remain viable when challenged by Barnes & Noble and Amazon.com for their products.
Small bookshops, formerly the only place to find books of any merit, have been dwindling over the past twenty years, due to the creation of megabookstores like Barnes & Noble, and online sellers like Amazon.com. While I’ve never run a bookstore (several of you leave), and I’ve got no significant bookselling experience (more leave), this is what I see when looking at the industry from the outside, based on information I’ve read in the news and in several publishing industry books recently.
Read the rest at The New Publisher’s Journal.
Posted by Giles, Monday, August 22, 2005, at 9:47 AM.
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Why I Don't Watch Television
Apparently, there’s some new show about life in a bookstore called, uh, Stacked. It features Pamela Anderson who lists her favorite reads here. Who would have thought that the former Baywatch thespian was a Hemingway fan?
Has anyone seen this? I’m assuming that it’s just a train wreck of a sitcom.
Posted by , Wednesday, April 20, 2005, at 5:32 PM.
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Waterstone's Employee Fired for Blogging
This has left me dreadfully upset. That a company I have given so many years to could treat me in such a brutal manner is despicable. That a book company thinks so little of the primacy of freedom of expression is alarming. I pointed out that Waterstone’s has stated publicly several times in the past that as a bookseller they believe in the freedom of expression and not in censorship. In fact a campaign was mounted a few years back which had banners along the lines of ‘what did Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot have in common? They feared the power of the written word. Celebrate Freedom of expression with us.’ Some folks may recall it. I asked if this was actually meant or was it simply cynical marketing? I was not answered.
More here.
via BoingBoing
Posted by , Monday, January 10, 2005, at 5:52 AM.
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RANDOM HOUSE TAKES ON B&N
Peter W. Olson, the chief executive of Random House Inc., the nation’s largest publisher, disclosed the company’s tentative plans to sell books directly to consumers through its own Web site. On Friday, Stephen Riggio, the chief executive of Barnes & Noble Inc., the country’s largest bookseller, said that he was “deeply concerned” by Random House’s plans to enter into his business, raising the possibility of a growing rift between the publishing companies.
There’s more here.
Especially cool if publishers can truly offer their entire back catalogs.
Posted by joseph, Monday, December 20, 2004, at 3:52 PM.
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Organizing a Bookstore by Color
via Jason Kottke
Posted by , Wednesday, November 17, 2004, at 10:21 AM.
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Risque Reading
If this were true, I would have a LOT more applications to work in my bookstore (not a euphenism, not a euphenism) each year.
***
FROM CNN…
Bus ads: Read a book, get oral sex
NEW YORK (Reuters) — New York officials were red-faced on Friday after they
discovered that clothing ads on city buses that appeared to promote reading
suggested a love of books could be rewarded with oral sex.
The advertisements that ran on about 200 buses across the city in recent
months carried posters displaying a suggestively posed woman in hot pants
kneeling among a pile of books beside the snappy slogan “Read Books, Get
Brain.”
What unhip, unsuspecting local transportation officials did not know was
that “get brain” is street slang for oral sex.
Posted by , Saturday, November 6, 2004, at 6:25 PM.
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When Good Bookstores Go Bad
I had a harrowing experience yesterday when one of my favorite Catholic bookstores was suddenly changed into a den of kitschy items and do-dads—statues, a bazillion cheap little rosaries and crosses made in China, and rainbow-colored WWJD bracelets. You can read more here over at my alter-ego blog.
Posted by , Thursday, October 28, 2004, at 5:54 AM.
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Backstory. This is not to be confused with backwash.
Recently, author MJ Rose launched a new blog called Backstory with the premise of having authors write about how they came about the story which their novel is based on. As it was just started two days ago, there’s only one author’s tale posted. However, they already have Katherine Neville, Lee Child, Tess Gerritesen, Chris Mooney, Jason Starr, Robert Ferrigno, Marcia Talley, Gayle Lynds, Laura Lippman, Caroline Leavitt, Lev Rafael, J.A. Konrath, and Doug Clegg slated for the upcoming months.
Personally, I think it’s a fantastic idea but that might be just because I am hoping for SCANDALOUS revelations involving midgets, spam, and sultry afternoons on the veranda sipping mint juleps. If the making of a novel doesn’t involve any of the above, I don’t really want to know about it.
Posted by , Wednesday, October 20, 2004, at 5:24 PM.
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Bookmarkable
Love used books? Love cats? There is a great section at LoganberryBooks.com about what the cats are reading. It makes me want to visit Shaker Heights just for this book store!
Posted by , Friday, July 16, 2004, at 9:34 AM.
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Who would have thought?
Amazon is selling used books! No, it’s true.
Booksquare has some thoughts.
Posted by , Monday, July 12, 2004, at 3:19 PM.
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Bookstore Times
Someone at Laura’s bookstore is pulling a Hyacinth Bucket.
Too funny!
Posted by , Saturday, July 3, 2004, at 1:45 PM.
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Why?
Why has amazon.com decided to offer customers a plog? Their “since you bought this, you might like this” personalised homepage as a marketing strategy leaves me cold.
Posted by , Thursday, June 3, 2004, at 10:21 AM.
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Kirk Cameron Alert
Best-selling Devotional Books
1. Growing Closer to God Than You Did Last Month (Zondervan)
2. You’re Getting Warmer: More Incremental Steps Toward Intimacy with God (Thomas Nelson)
3. Now You’re REALLY Close: The 2004 “Almost There” Devotional (Multnomah)
4. The Radical Teen’s Funky-Awesome Life Path Adventure Devotional, with Commentary by Television Superstar Kirk Cameron! (InterVarsity)
5. Finding God Through the Inspired Paintings of Thomas Kinkade — A Classic Country Churches Devotional (Angel-Painter of Light Books, Inc.)
via Lark News
Posted by , Sunday, May 2, 2004, at 7:38 PM.
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Bitter much?
10. Editors—who have forgotten the editorial craft—for servicing the marketing department, pursuing fast results and name recognition over quality of content and offering authors the Faustian bargain of fame and fortune, while pleading their best intentions like goats.
After almost thirty years, Avenue Victor Hugo bookshop - the winner of the best used bookstore in Boston in 2003 - has closed. However, their website is still up with a list of “Twelve reasons for the death of small and independent book stores” from The Hound by John Usher. The list is more accusatory and stern then I would ever venture but interesting enough. I’m truly sad to seen another bookshop fold, especially one with such a fantastic cat icon as their menu tabs on their website.
Posted by , Wednesday, March 17, 2004, at 1:33 PM.
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Customer Conversation of The Day
Me: Ma’am, I’m sorry I couldn’t find any book by that title. It’s “Giles” right?
Ma’am: Yes.
Me: Huh, Giles. Spell that for me just to make sure?
Ma’am: Giles! J-A-W-S
Me: JAWS! OH!
Oh the trials and tribulations at a rural South Carolina bookery.
Also, while I’m never overly impressed with the font or the placement of the words - the pictures and color schemes used on Helen Dunmore’s novels are always swoonworthy. They also seem to magically match the story and the tone thereof of the book itself, which when you’re dealing with yankee incest can be quite the challenge.
Posted by , Saturday, February 28, 2004, at 4:29 PM.
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J'adore Mlle. Llew
Female Customer: Could you wrap this for me?
Me: Sure.
Female Customer: Wait, how much is it? It was in the Special Values section.
Me: $6.50
Female Customer: Oh, good. He’s not worth much more than that.
More Adventures in Bookselling at A Girl Who Wears Glasses.
Posted by , Thursday, February 19, 2004, at 7:17 PM.
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Confession
I’m so ashamed. Last night I watched You’ve Got Mail for the first time.
The IMDB review sums the plot up nicely:
never mind the trite, ephronious screenplay and the utterly uninteresting situations…but COME-FREAKING-ON…her little, integrity and character-driven book store is bought out by his (obviously) Borders chain.…and she thinks its CUTE and CHARMING of him??!?!?!?! she loved her store. it meant something to her. and to think that someone like her would not only forgive the heartless (except in that o-so-charming cutesy nora ephron way) capitalist mogul, but agree to love him and forget her store.. C’mon people.
If you haven’t seen it, don’t. Your 119 minutes will be better spent supporting your local independent bookseller.
Posted by , Wednesday, February 11, 2004, at 8:45 AM.
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Bookstore turnaround ideas?
The Bookseller’s latest poll asks the question:
What can W H Smith do to reverse its poor performance?
The results are really interesting. I guess that I would have guessed that most votes went to “Offer biggest discounts” but, no, 54% of the respondents choose “Stock a greater range of titles.”
Interestingly, Giles and I recently visited a new Borders store in Brandon, FL. The design was beautiful and inviting but guess what our biggest complaint was? The book selection was much more shallow than any other Borders store we have visited. We’re so used to the luxury of seeing so many university and small press titles at the store we usually haunt.
Posted by , Saturday, January 10, 2004, at 3:50 PM.
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Happy Shareholders
2003 was a very successful year for booksellers B&N, Amazon.com, and Borders.
Stories here, here, here, and here.
Posted by , Monday, January 5, 2004, at 6:44 PM.
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Bookstore Cat
At Collected Works Bookstore, 208B West San Francisco Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Meow.
Via Jay at AnthemBooks.
Posted by , Monday, December 15, 2003, at 6:39 AM.
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What if
…the library were like Amazon?
Cool Kevin van der Leek passes along this “kinda cute” but hard-hitting series of cartoons. Thanks, Kevin.
Posted by Giles, Thursday, December 11, 2003, at 9:43 AM.
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Antique books (on Amazon)
“The online retailer Amazon has stormed the fusty world of antiquarian booksellers by acquiring the rights to the British Library’s unique back catalogue, dragging the buying and selling of rare and out-of-print books into the dotcom age,” writes Britain’s The Independent.
Just what British antiquarian booksellers need, right? No word on whether a similar service is in the works for the US; indeed, who in the US would Amazon turn to? Our (relative) lack of history probably doesn’t help…;)
Posted by Giles, Saturday, November 29, 2003, at 10:26 PM.
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Foreword Asks
What can publishers do to help indie booksellers sell more of their specific titles?
I know that we have a few booksellers who read us from time to time. What do you think?
Posted by , Tuesday, November 25, 2003, at 4:57 PM.
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Revolt
MobyLives.com has several “insider” letters addressing the Borders strike in their flagship store.
Here’s more on the story from a socialist party perspective and here’s another from Publisher’s Weekly who reports that the company insists that they are “rightsizing” by laying off employees.
I’m a capitalist at heart but having a company justify layoffs by using the term “rightsizing” makes my really mad. Besides, Borders has enjoyed some nice growth in the past twelve months.
Posted by , Thursday, November 13, 2003, at 12:04 PM.
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Amazon.com's text mining + 1 week
Vernica feels the need to atone for her Amazon.com related sins while Pub Weekly reports:
As publishers continue to question Amazon’s Search Inside the Book, the retailer today has a simple answer: it increases sales.
The company has released a statement saying that sales growth for titles in the program “outpaced growth for titles not in the program by 9 percent.”
The retailer sought to head off any undermining of the survey by adding, “This is a large, statistically significant sample (120,000 titles) with a large valid control group, consisting of the remaining titles that do not have Search Inside treatment” and a comment from Jeff Bezos saying that “Search Inside the Book is driving increased sales.”
Why isn’t Booksense coming up with these ideas??
Posted by , Friday, October 31, 2003, at 11:27 AM.
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Authors on Amazon's book search
Amanda’s mentioned how much fun Miss LL and indeed many of us are having with Amazon’s new book text search function — but it seems that the Author’s Guild is less pleased, “conclud[ing] that these publishers do not have the right to participate in this program without their authors’ permission.”
The Importance Of — an always-excellent blog covering technology, rights, law and nearly everything in between — has more, including a full copy of the Guild’s email.
Posted by Giles, Sunday, October 26, 2003, at 11:43 AM.
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Laura's having fun
with Amazon.com’s new search function and helping customers to boot!
In a surprising move to promote literacy, some of the schools of South Carolina have decided that for Halloween elementary age children should dress up as a book character and bring that book with them as they present their costume to classmates and such. Of course, the illiterate hillbillies are wiley so I’ve been getting calls from parents saying how their girl is going as Barbie and can’t I scrounge up a book for her.
Of course, their little Darlene Ann Beth ain’t going as just any barbie. She’s going as CRUISING BARBIE and they want a book specifically on her. To amuse myself, I typed “cruising barbie” into Amazon which now searches for words in the BOOK as well in the title. What book did I bring up?
Beneath the Equator: Cultures of Desire, Male Homosexuality, and Emerging Gay Communities in Brazil” by Richard G. Parker.
Posted by , Saturday, October 25, 2003, at 6:44 AM.
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Mrs. Yu's Amazon.com
Only it’s called dangdang.com.
In a country where only 8 million out of 68 million Internet users have ever shopped online, Ms. Yu says that the learning curve has been steep.
“It’s really a great leap forward from visiting a physical store to shopping online,” she said. “Half the calls we get are `How do you order online? What does it mean by shopping cart?’”
It has been equally daunting to convince consumers to use plastic over cash, especially given the complicated rules for credit cards drawn up by banks in some areas. So Dangdang uses 30 bicycle courier companies in 12 cities to deliver the products and collect the cash, which is then wired to Dangdang.
You can find David W. Chen’s full article here.
Posted by , Saturday, October 25, 2003, at 6:24 AM.
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Borders just says "no" to prices on books
Pub Weekly has the story but here’s the short of it:
Border’s puts their own sticker avec barcode on every book they sell. They now want for publishers to take their prices off of the books sold by Borders so that they can price the book higher.
I don’t like it.
Posted by , Monday, October 6, 2003, at 8:08 AM.
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SEBA 2003
It’s your favorite roving Foreword reporter here with adventurous tales from yet another exhilirating bookseller’s convention. And please note, bookies, that it’s your favorite Foreword and not forward reporter because that’s not what I mean when I ask publishers about their “show specials.” Really.
This year’s South Eastern Booksellers Association (SEBA) convention was held at Jekyl Island, Georgia last weekend. There were some publishers lacking representatives due to Isabel but the weather at the actual show was absolutely gorgeous and clear. I overheard some of their colleagues who had flown out early speaking to those who had gotten stuck at home due to the hurricane on their cellphones saying things like, “Well, the weather’s beautiful here! I hope you’re having fun up there without any power, suckahs!” (Note - this is a rough translation.)
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Posted by , Thursday, September 25, 2003, at 5:17 PM.
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Site redesign
Publisher Oak Knoll has just redesigned their site!
Could better cover design be right around the corner?
Posted by , Thursday, September 18, 2003, at 8:32 AM.
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Yippeee
PW Daily for Booksellers has just reported that
Borders Group has installed wi-fi service in three-quarters of its 420 superstores in the U.S. and aims to have the rest online, as it were, by the holiday season, the company announced today.
The service, allowing customers with laptops or PDAs to make a wireless connection with the Internet, is provided by T-Mobile. A variety of plans are available to use the system.
To promote the service, Borders cafes are serving coffee in cups with sleeves that offer passwords that allow free service for 24 hours. In a press release, Borders president Tami Heim commented: “We’re working with T-Mobile to develop unique ways to encourage shoppers in wi-fi enabled Borders stores to use the service, which is experiencing steady growth.”
Wi-fi “hot spots” are available in many public locations, most notably in Starbucks and some airline lounges (and Kinko’s soon), as well as for free in some urban areas.
Posted by , Friday, September 5, 2003, at 5:33 PM.
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JungleScan.com
is a very cool tool which allows you to create a portfolio of Amazon.com titles in an effort to track sales.
It would be wonderful if Book Sense had such a tool as well!
Posted by , Friday, August 8, 2003, at 3:15 PM.
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Today at Lighthouse
Amanda has mentioned Lighthouse Books before, but we were there today with Amanda’s sister and our niece — who, at 7, has come to love bookstores:
Posted by Giles, Thursday, July 17, 2003, at 10:34 PM.
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Costs of Costco
Tim Huggins has a great editorial over at today’s MobyLives on the price paid by all of us when books are sold through the likes of Costco and—as Giles puts it—Wal-Swill.
Posted by , Tuesday, July 15, 2003, at 3:42 PM.
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Cunning Crosswords
The American Booksellers Association got a bit of lexical notice today as “ABA” is an answer in today’s New York Times crossword puzzle. Question 8 down is, “Org. popular with authors.”
Also, as I was unpacking books today I noticed this one. The scan is bad so that you can’t see some of the minor details which I great. However, I’m copying Amanda to say that this is a book cover which I like today.
Tomorrow though - I plan to spit on it.
Posted by , Thursday, July 10, 2003, at 3:49 PM.
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Flannery Flailings
Laura, we miss you at Foreword!
Posted by , Thursday, July 10, 2003, at 8:16 AM.
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No Harry Potter allowed
at the Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe children’s bookstore in Canada.
The story can be found here.
Posted by , Saturday, June 14, 2003, at 7:12 PM.
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Laura on the road
Laura still hasn’t returned to South Carolina but she’s learned some ugly secrets about Fox News that is just too much to handle as well as visiting some cool bookstores.
In regards to the my post last night about return policies, I’d love to hear how Laura’s indie bookstore handles this.
Posted by , Wednesday, June 11, 2003, at 7:35 AM.
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BISG says book sales up
The Book Industry Study Group says that
Sales in the religious book segment are expected to increase 3% in 2003, to $1.3 billion. The professional book segment, which had an 8.6% sales gain in 2002, is projected to have a more modest 1.6% increase in 2003, to $5.2 billion. After a flat 2002, sales in the university press segment are expected to increase 3.1%, to $458.3 million.
via Pub Weekly.
Posted by , Saturday, June 7, 2003, at 6:50 PM.
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Graphic Novel Day
An interesting observance I’ve noted at this show is how when I’m pushing my father in the wheelchair that others - publishing representatives, authors, etc - will talk to us as if we’re just one person. It’s as if the handicap halves us both. At least I’m not the bottom half, eh?
It’s hard to update when I’m only allowed ten minutes a day so please forgive me on my absence. While you’re heart is filling with the wonders of life that you always feel when you do the right thing, also ignore my atrocious grammar and spelling errors which I’m sure to make as my flustered fingers tries to type as the computer nazi yells, “Laura - two minutes!” I promise I shall update in more detail later.
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Posted by , Sunday, June 1, 2003, at 2:36 PM.
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