So, I just got word from… someone… somewhere… that they just registered a book at AuthorsBookshop.com for a person that is close to them… as a Christmas present!
I’m not saying who did this, or where they are from, or in what way they are related to the recipient to protect the surprise.
But I just had [...]

That seems to be the question I’m being forced to ask myself.Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer yet another techie, time-eating attempt at book promotionOr to take arms ‘gainst a sea of silliness and by going offline, end it.
In the last few days (my apologies if you were hoping for more mangled Shakespeare), [...]

Yesterday on the bookstore industry newsletter Shelf Awareness, this remarkable proposal was floated. (My personal response is appended further down in this blogpost.)
A Solution for Capital-Starved Independent BookstoresThe following is a proposal made by Jack McKeown, former president and CEO of the Perseus Books Group and former president and publisher of the Adult Trade Group [...]

I’m working on a new book. Here’s the first chapter!
Vox Pop, Sander, and Me
Chapter One
By Andrew Laties
“Who will screw the chains? How will they screw the chains? When will they screw the chains?”
The entire email response to my book query for Screw The Chains: A Free-Jazz Improvising Radical Children’s Bookseller Gets Chewed Up And [...]

So, I got my fourth and final “Abe’s Penny” the other day (Volume 1.7). Four postcards in all. I love them. If you didn’t catch it, I first posted about Abe’s Penny here.

According to editor Anna Knoebel:

We call Abe’s Penny a micro-magazine. Each issue is a series of four postcards with a [...]

I think I have a new hero. His name is Christopher Herz, from Canal Publishing and his book is The Last Block in Harlem.

This guy takes indie/guerrilla marketing to absolute new heights. What he does is called “handselling,” and that in-and-of itself is nothing new. As the name implies, it’s basically making sales [...]

I get the “Shelf Awareness” newsletter in my inbox everyday – it’s a great source of news and happenings in the publishing world.

But today, care of a special “dedicated” issue, I ran across something interesting. This “special issue” seems to have been sponsored by HarperStudios, as it’s really kind of a trumpet piece for [...]

Ok, there are books, then there are art books, and then there is book art.

If you kids have been reading along, you will know that I am a pretty big fan of book art. Well, I have posted about it a bunch, any way. And I get excited when I see it.

So here [...]

So, I didn’t even realize I was looking for the iPod of ebooks but after posts like this and this, I kinda have to come clean with myself and accept that I kinda am looking for that super slick ebook reader that is going to capture everyone’s heart and do to ebooks what the ipod [...]

Yawn.
I got a boilerplate email today:
I’ve found a new site called BookRabbit.com, here’s the scoop:It’s a social network for book lovers. You can see what other people are reading, discuss old favourites and discover new books and authors, as well as create your own personal bookshelves and catalogues online. The aim is simple – to [...]