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No, not another censorship article, but close! Once again, wandering around the net with no clear destination, Pippi Longstocking popped up. Not because she is a funny, strong, fantastic read for kids of a certain age, but because someone finds the books to be ‘racist’. Sigh. From The Local–Germany’s News in English: “A German theologian … Read more
IKEA controls the printing industry, apparently. Or at least, that’s the impression I got from the articles that were flying around a couple of weeks ago about how the changes that were made to the BILLY bookshelf sold by IKEA mean that novels are not going to last much longer.
Have we as a working nation learned nothing from the past? Are we all so self involved, that when a news story reports a company is mistreating workers, treating them as disposable objects, and subjecting them to inhuman heat indexes, we respond by calling the workers ‘wimp’s’ ‘whiners’ ‘commies’? We side with the huge corporation … Read more
By Joe Waynick Internet retail giant Amazon.com and the state of California have been locked in legal combat the past few months because state lawmakers want the retailer to begin collecting state sales taxes on Internet sales made to California residents. Under federal law states can only require companies to collect sales taxes if they … Read more
How do you decide what book to purchase? Does your selection process change if in a small independent bookshop, or a large supermarket store, or online with the same–small, big, and virtual–amazon? Do you have a specific genre in mind? Author? Many authors? If needing a reference book, which will you choose? How do you … Read more
You’ve heard that term before, right? Any time someone says anything contrary to the established beliefs of small vocal radical conservative groups, and they are on the East coast–heck, even if they’re in downtown Chicago–the perception these people give is that any one who disagrees with them are “elitists.” I doubt most understand what the … Read more
Attention Writers: The Council of Literary Magazines and Presses would like to invite you to LWC}NYC, an important Literary Writers Conference in New York City on November 3-4, 2011. Readers of The Book Shop Blog receive a 20% discount (link below)! LWC}NYC is a program of the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses [clmp] with … Read more
If you’ve been around my articles for any amount of time you may have noticed my links to the organization called Banned Books Week. There is an actual week of activity and runs the last week of September every year. The campaign was founded in 1982 by prominent First Amendment and library activist Judith Krug … Read more
