Our writers have been around books for a long time and are never shy to share their opinions…
Today, we had a little girl in our shop (about 8 or 9 years old) who said she had some books she wanted to sell and would I be interested. I looked at them and they were, quite frankly, not worth anything – even someone like me who specialises in new books and is still … Read more
One of the nice things about having contributors to the blog is that I also get a few extra sets of eyeballs surfing for great content. Tom Nealon of Pazzo books and The Bookshop Blog brought this great posting to my attention. It is by Ian J. Kahn of Lux Mentis Lux Orbis. This has … Read more
I get asked this pretty regularly and I wish a had a good answer. Something like, “I was always surrounded by books in the house and my mother was a librarian…”, or maybe “I was sitting under a tree when a Gore Vidal book fell from a well perched reader, when I awoke – six … Read more
Do you know what a meme is? As I write this the word itself is underlined in red. My PC doesn’t know what a meme is. Late last year I read a book by Richard Dawkins so ya, I happen to know what it is. Isn’t that exactly why we do what we do, selling … Read more
Just came across this while surfing. We’ll try and keep you up to date. This is from PhiloBiblos, a great book blog. Rolland Lee Comstock, 70, a Missouri bibliophile known to travel far and wide in order to get his books signed and for his ability to spot emerging authors and gamble on their eventual … Read more
It’s cool how blogs enable good content to spread viraly. I don’t often read the L.A.Times and probably wouldn’t have seen this article if it weren’t for a superb blog called QuillBlog from Quill and Quire magazine. Here it’s necessary to distinguish between the newspaper critics and the cyber crooks, who may have posted sections … Read more
I came across this post from Larry Portzline over at THE BOOKSTORE TOURISM BLOG. I thought the sentiment was so well expressed and I couldn’t agree more strongly so here it is: I had a pleasant email exchange with a visitor to my blog a couple of days ago about the temptation to buy new … Read more
We have a guest today giving us his take on the future of online sales. Guy Weller, of the World Book Market This is in response to the statement – ‘the reason sales are diminishing has mostly to do with the fact that the number of bookdealers and books online has been constantly increasing since…‘ … Read more
