It’s not all doom and gloom for bookstores despite the news I woke up to Friday morning. I was awoken by CBC’s morning radio show host interviewing one of the co-owners of Flying Dragon Bookstore, an award-winning bookstore in Toronto, Canada. Saturday May 14, 2011 the Canadian Booksellers Association had named them Specialty Bookseller of … Read more
No, I don’t mean self help titles or sob stories, but how a book feels in your hands while reading it. ABE books again came up with an interesting topic, tactile reading.I know I send links to ABE a lot, but they have fantastic collections and ideas that are unusal in the book world. So, … Read more
A tasty little look at children’s books with food as the theme. bon appetit! http://www.abebooks.com/books/childrens-kids-fruit-stories/james-giant-peach.shtml?cm_mmc=nl-_-nl-_-110517-h00-gpeach50A-_-01cta
I always judge a book by it’s cover, how can I not? Despite the notorious adage, almost everybody does and publishers know it. The process of conceptualizing a book cover design to it’s printing is a complicated and intricate operation. Many graphic designers and artists dedicate their art to the process of wrapping the pages … Read more
If you’re thinking a relative of mine died and left me a fortune, sadly, no. But almost as valuable, an edition of a book I’ve been searching for over 15 years is now in my excited hands. The Plumley Inheritance is incredibly scarce. The author, Christopher Bush is not a favorite of mine–not at all. … Read more
There are some books which are always on school book lists and most customers will have on ‘to-be-read’ lists. Those books which, even the biggest reader, will sometimes get “You haven’t read “Insert Incredible Classic Here”!!?” Now, with the onslaught of re-jacketed and (very) reasonably priced classics, what better way to beef up sales than … Read more
Book ordering is critically important in how customers view a store, stock is (if not the most important) one of the single reasons a customer will purchase in your store. But is there some stock which has a detrimental effect to how an indie store is viewed? Admittedly, this blog is more of a discussion … Read more
Which–you all probably already know! But if you are like me when I first started, this book dilemma was perplexing and I’d no solution. If you have a hardcover, or to a lessor extent, paperback, that is cocked, meaning all the pages list to one side, there is a way to set them correct without … Read more
