Showing posts with label bookselling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bookselling. Show all posts
Friday, September 06, 2024

Thought for the day

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"Being a book evangelist is an occupational hazard when you're a bookseller."— Shelf Awareness <idle musing> Ain'...
Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Thought for the day

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From Shelf Awareness , a bookseller's daily email: "Children ask better questions than do adults. 'May I have a cookie?'...
Friday, August 18, 2023

book seller or book trader

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"Every word written from the heart holds a Mystery. The reader reveals it by building a whole from the sentences recognized by the cons...
Saturday, November 12, 2022

Tempest in a teapot

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Aparently there has been a big dust up on Twitter about translators not being named on the cover of a book. Jim West has a post on it and I...
Thursday, February 17, 2022

This is evil!!

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The Maryland court blocked the library ebooks law from going into effect, claiming that it violated copyright protection. Now, that might ...
Friday, August 27, 2021

The bookstore

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"We watch a reader in a bookshop: he picks up a book, leafs through it—and for a short instant he is entirely cut off from the world. H...
Sunday, March 08, 2020

Another week gone by

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and here's what I've been reading (well, some of what I've been reading anyway). First off, Roger Olson explains what he means...
Saturday, February 15, 2020

Another week...

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Well, it's been almost a week since the last round-up of stuff I found interesting. As always, read the posts for yourself to make sure ...
Saturday, January 11, 2020

Once more, round the web

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Are you a teacher and had a bad week? I remember those—especially when I was teaching high school! Take a look at this post for some encour...
Thursday, October 17, 2019

Around the links

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A quick glance at what I've found interesting in the last few days: First, what is the proper use of Thucydides? Is the "Thucydid...
Friday, August 10, 2018

Yes!

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This guy "gets it" about that big river in South America that sells books (and lots of other things) online: Some may wonder, wh...
Tuesday, October 04, 2016

The physical book

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When it comes to the format discussion, the physical book is here to stay. With studies published on exhaustive reading, the correlation bet...
Wednesday, May 20, 2015

So what do I call it?

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Most of you (all two of you?) have probably seen the announcement from last Friday. If not, here it is: As the announcement says, I'm ...
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Tuesday, May 20, 2014

A much needed house-cleaning

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I'm very poor at maintaining the layout of this blog. Witness the "What I'm reading" as an example. I finished one of thos...
Thursday, December 20, 2012

Understatement of the week

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From Behind the Books : It turns out that making books into ebooks isn't as easy as you might think.
Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Too true!

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How about all that sensationalism in reporting and writing? I'm delighted that someone is taking a stand against it: When I started m...
Wednesday, November 28, 2012

The way I look at bookselling

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There's a bookseller's e-letter called Shelf Awareness that is sent out daily. Most of it would bore a non-bookseller to death : )...
Thursday, November 08, 2012

There and back again

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No, this post isn't about The Hobbit ! As most of you know, we left Warsaw, Indiana at the end of June, moving to Grand Marais, Minneso...
Thursday, May 31, 2012

Eisenbrauns is hiring!

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It's official now. This just went out in an e-mail to the BookNews Marketing Director / Acquisitions Editor June, 2012 Eisenbrauns i...
Thursday, May 17, 2012

Ouch!

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This just arrived today: Think it's sellable? You should see the CD-ROM in the back; it definitely will have a hard time spinning!
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