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A [Sad] Future For Bookstores
Check out this comic from Angela Liao over at twenty pixels. It begins with this preface: Reading text lists of titles and gridded book covers images can’t compete with the in-store bookstore...
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Book Hatchery: What I learned about books on my visit to a salmon hatchery
I recently had the pleasure to accompany my daughter and her 3rd/4th grade class on a three night camping trip to the Mt. Baker wilderness in Washington State. The goal of the trip was to teach the...
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Holy Bookshop! A 15th century cathedral gets booked
The gods must be shining down on Zwolle, a small town outside of Amsterdam. The Dutch bookshop Waanders In de Broeren has recently moved to town and set up shop in a 15th century gothic catederal!...
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Book Fair with Grunge and more…
This weekend the annual Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair takes center stage. Nearly 100 booksellers from far and wide converge on the Seattle Center to showcase their stuff. Don’t let the name antiquarian...
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“If every bookshop tells a story…”
Loving this ad placed by Unity Books in New Zealand in the literary magazine Sport 13 in the Spring of 1994. Published before e-commerce would forever change the business of bookselling, the ad reeks...
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The Worst is Over and The Book is Not Dead
infographic created by LicenseDirect h/t Ebook Friendly The post The Worst is Over and The Book is Not Dead appeared first on Book Patrol.
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The Book Emperor of Johannesberg
“This is my empire, my kingdom…Books are my wealth, my gift” says Philane Dladla His kingdom is “at a U-turn sign at an intersection in Empire Road opposite Wits University, in Johannesburg.”and his...
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Shakespeare Takes Center Stage in the Rare Book World
John Baret’s Alvearie, 1580 Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven —William Shakespeare For some it would be as close to the Holy Grail as one can hope for. A...
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Literally: The English Bookseller Captured
The series Literally by UK photographer Steve Kenward takes him inside the bookshops of England to capture the bookseller in their lair. He says of the project: Independent bookshops are great places...
View ArticleAmazon Rising: CNBC to profile the godzilla of e-commerce
This Sunday night CNBC shines the light on Amazon with the premiere of Amazon Rising. From the press release: CNBC tells the story of a shrewd visionary named Jeff Bezos who bet his fortunes on the...
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