Bruce K. Hollingdrake We do this a couple times a year, put out a call for you to join us in helping booksellers, collectors, future book sellers and anyone else that enjoys this blog. We have changed our procedures in regards to submissions. Writers can now sign up for an account and start publishing posts immediately. If you … Read more
a guest post by Ed Dugan from I Need to Cook (if you love food, and who doesn’t, check out his site – pretty sweet.) All of us have read about that wonderful little bookstore on a little used side street where literary masterpieces can be found. In fact there was such a bookstore in … Read more
Any list of British authors will reveal some of the greatest names in literature, their influence extending well beyond the English-speaking world and crossing cultural borders. William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll, Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, Agatha Christie, George Orwell, J. R. R. Tolkien, Ian Fleming and J. K. Rowling are just … Read more
Having a store is going to mean that you want to do your best to bring money to it. If you have a retail store it is going to mean that you will have a lot of items to look after and you would only wonder how to do that. Organization can prove tough these … Read more
All Quiet on the Western Front is quite simply a masterpiece. Written by Erich Maria Remarkque is removes the glory and romanticism that once accompanied war. It is brutal, real, sad and eye opening. We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The … Read more
More and more people are getting into digital reading and I have a feeling there will be an explosion of Kindles sold this holiday season. While reader’s comfort level with digital reading grows they are bound to seek out more and more digital books online and of course, if they can, would prefer reading online … Read more
I received an e-mail from Elaine Broeder at Penguin telling me about their new list of Classics as voted on by You. I thought it was a fun idea and would like to pass it on to all of you. Here are a few words from Penguin about the list, enjoy. Last year, we compiled … Read more
I learned from experience that when you visit a city for the first time it is not always easy to find the bookshops that may be of interest. I was in Paris a few weeks ago and wanted to visit a few shops, heaven knows they have enough of them. Everybody knows about Shakespeare and Company but … Read more
