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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008Crichton, author of bestselling books such as Jurassic Park, Sphere, and Andromeda Strain, died after a long battle with cancer. You can read his family’s recent memorial statement here.
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2008 Man Booker Prize Announced
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008Aravind Adiga, 33, won the 40th Man Booker prize on Tuesday night for his debut novel, “The White Tiger,” an exploration of India’s class struggle told through the story of a village boy’s journey from Indian village life to entrepreneurial success.
Adiga, who lives in Mumbai, was born in India. He studied at Columbia and Oxford [...]
ReCAPTCHA’s so cool…
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008My afternoon has been spent trying to stop spam in Biblio.com’s forums. Stopping spam is usually a thankless job. Today it was fun.
ReCAPTCHA is an interesting take on proving you are human. It displays two words from pages that could not be OCR’d. One word is known and the other is not. Each user enters [...]
Monday, August 18th, 2008
When you spend a lot of time looking at books like commodities, as I do in our business, sometimes you sort of forget that the books have things in them. Things like information, sometimes true and sometimes false, heartrending, well-told stories and trite, really badly told stories. When I go home and pass [...]
A Day in the Life…
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
New issue of BiblioUnbound is out!
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008The June issue of BiblioUnbound, our customer e-zine, was released today. This month, we focused on the paperback: why we love it, why we hate it, how to collect it and preserve it. It was a really fun issue to put together, and I hope you enjoy it!
Catherine
Editor, BiblioUnbound
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