Overheard at ABE.com  another insightful comment from OZ’s Guy Weller.
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We online booksellers need to empower ourselves.
The larger bookselling sites - Amazon, eBay, ABE and even some of the smaller sites - are dictating far too …

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Another installment from William Smith of Hang Fire Books
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Independent Book Publishers Association (PMA) moves against Online Galley Sales.
The PMA is eliminating a membership benefit that “provides a discount in the initial fees …

Author Robert Jordan, who was best known for the Wheel of Time series of fantasy novels, has died of a rare blood disease aged 58.
full story from the BBC …

Another entry from our distinguished writer from Massachusetts Tom Nealon of Pazzo Books

A signed proof of Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls is headed for auction in November at Swann. It has a …

One thing that independent booksellers should learn from the chain stores is that a customer wants a comfortable place to kill time almost as much as they want a selection of reading material. Of …

It seems Barnes and Noble have reversed an earlier decision and will go ahead with the sale of O.J. Simpson’s book ‘If I did it’. It seems that pre-orders have been high enough to …

Posted by Tom Nealon of Pazzo Books
Dana’s great story about the Baum that got away reminded me of mistakes in
book selling. I traded stocks for a few years, and the most common mistake
is to get …