In December 2007, Ingram’s Lightning Source printed 1.2 million units. Yes, that’s million. The average print run was 1.8 copies. The average turnaround time was 12 hours. Now, I know that lots of us have gripes about Ingram, particularly when an order doesn’t happen quite the way we think it should.

Gary Gygax died on Tuesday. Gygax (along with Dave Arneson) was the creator of the Dungeons and Dragons role-playing game which is the quintessential nerd hobby.

Neil Gaiman and HarperCollins have decided to release Neil’s book, American Gods, for free across the Internet. Here is the link

Here’s the third installment of the Bookseller’s Gazette, an on-going feature collecting references to specific rare or out-of-print books that pop-up in national publications.
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Innovation has been limited (have a look at any of the book sites via the
Internet Archive’s Way Back Machine which archives sections of the internet)- the internet is
still basically an electronic version of a print catalog, with little to
recommend it, particularly bookselling wise.

I officially made my transition from fanatic book reader to bookselling fanatic in 1993 when I was in my late thirties. I’ve always been a slow learner and it took me that long to figure out that I did not fit in either the academic or government environments.

This is the beginning of a story that (I hope) will have in it the part about me opening my own bookstore. I hope the story doesn’t end there – as you booksellers know, it’s the ongoing narrative that’s the stuff dreams are made of, not the single moment of opening the doors.

by Elisabeth Grant-Gibson - A couple of weeks ago, I made the pilgrimage to Jefferson, Texas, for the annual Girlfriend Weekend that Kathy Patrick and her Pulpwood Queens host. It was my first time.

A first post by a new writer here at The Bookshop Blog. Scott Davis runs an Amazon Store as well as an eBay Store. Check out his sites..
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What Doesn’t Kill You Only Makes You Stronger
As an online bookseller on Amazon, I’d grown used to perusing the local thrift shops at my leisure; my […]

A conversation with author Philip Pullman (courtesy charlierose.com)