Archive for July, 2008
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008I know, I know: the moment you’ve all be waiting for, the answer to the question on everyone’s mind, the latest and greatest expose: What’s it like working for Biblio.com?
Let’s start here: Biblio, Inc. is a small company–we have a total staff of 10, sometimes 11 if Winslow is here but he doesn’t get a [...]
A reading list inspired by watching TV
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008I was watching TV recently, and caught the movie High Fidelity again. Before anyone can begin their moral assessment of me, I did read the book many years ago, before the movie came out, but the movie is what inspired me to create my own Top 5 List.
We all know the literary cannon; the [...]
New Issue of BiblioUnbound, including an exclusive interview with Orson Scott Card
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008Greetings Bibliolings:
The latest issue of BiblioUnbound is now available, including an exclusive interview with Orson Scott Card, an article on collecting science fiction pulps and digests, and, what you’ve all been dying to know, the proper use of bookmarks.
Now, take us to your leader. Or, at least point the way to the nearest independent [...]
Presidential campaigns go graphic
Thursday, July 24th, 2008
OK, I got started on this thread by looking at an interesting post on Book Patrol about John McCain’s reading habits. I did a bit of searching loosely centered around the topic of the presidential candidates and books, and before you know it I had found this on the LA Times blog:
IDW Publishing, a comics [...]
Tips for Saving Money on Textbooks
Thursday, July 17th, 2008I was once a poor student like yourself. To save up enough cash for Ramen noodles, a Netflix subscription and tickets to my favorite music venues, I had to get pretty creative with my textbook expenses. What I learned is that there are plenty of resources beyond your campus bookstore to help you obtain the [...]
Top stories from BiblioUnbound’s first year
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008The top 12 BiblioUnbound articles from the past year, covering book collecting, bookselling and more.
More on trashing books…
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008One of my first college writing teachers asked us to do the following exercise: choose a page in the grammar book assigned for the course and write in a page margin the worst thing you’ve ever done, then tear out the margin where you wrote it and throw it away (or eat it, if [...]
Textbooks, or, the Battle of Students vs Publishers - Part II
Thursday, July 10th, 2008Apologies in advance for belaboring the point in regards to my previous post on the broken textbook industry, but another interesting article on custom textbook publishing appeared this morning in the Wall Street Journal.
The article is mostly self-explanatory, so I won’t go into a lengthy discussion, but I would like to ask the reader to [...]
Textbooks, or, The Battle of Students vs Publishers
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008We in the book industry should be well enough read to know the maxim: history repeats.
The Chronicle of Higher Education has an interesting story about a new movement among students to scan textbooks into PDFs to share across P2P (peer to peer) networks. Publishers are, of course, furious. They’ve enlisted outside legal agents [...]
BookHound 7ce: Free Bookstore Software for Windows XP and Vista
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008Biblio.com has partnered with Bibliopolis to offer booksellers BookHound 7ce (Community Edition) for Windows XP and Vista operating systems.
This release is available starting today, and will offer booksellers a new option for free inventory management software. To download the Windows version of BookHound 7ce, please visit the BookHound 7ce information page.
BookHound 7ce features include: printed [...]
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