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Tuesday, November 11th, 2008Last week, Barnes & Noble CEO Leonard Riggio released sang a dire song for his employees, citing:
Never in all of the years I’ve been in business have I seen a worse outlook for the economy. And never in all my years as a bookseller have I seen a retail climate as poor as the one [...]
What’s in a book?
Friday, August 29th, 2008Anyone who’s ever worked in a bookstore has stories to tell of the bizarre stuff they find in books. Sometimes you’ll find funny pictures of people in outdated clothing (usually stuck inside of yesterday’s bestseller thriller), receipts for the purchase of the book (boring), dollar bills (now we’re talking), love notes, unsent postcards or [...]
Laying siege to your local library
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008Make no mistake, in the world of books, there is no idyllic indian summer. No lazy dog days’ afternoons. No sweet corn harvest. No last minute dash to the coast. For this is the beginning of the Library Sale Wars. This is the time that tries the souls of booklovers. [...]
Save Wordsmiths! And your other (local) bookstores…
Friday, August 15th, 2008I was driving home from the office the other day and heard a compelling story on NPR about Wordsmiths Books, an independent bookstore in Decatur, Georgia, that is currently asking for financial contributions to help offset their start-up debts. Start-up debts, you ask? What do you mean Catherine?
Well, according to owner Zach (no last name [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Look Homeward, Bibliophile
Monday, July 7th, 2008Not so long ago, I wrote about Asheville’s penchant for books. (For those who don’t already know, Biblio.com is based in beautiful Asheville, NC - home of Thomas Wolfe). Over the past weekend, our local newspaper, the Asheville Citizen-Times, just happened to run a story on some of the local independent bookstores in [...]
Of Books and Backaches
Friday, June 20th, 2008Pazzo Books (a longtime bookseller with Biblio.com) has a great tipsheet for moving a bookstore over at the Bookshop Blog. Probably many of us in the book trade can sympathize with Tom, having endured this pain at some point, or at least dreaded it. Usually, its accompanied by invectives and curses brought down [...]
Declining economy = increasing readership?
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008According to a brief article in the Chicago Post-Tribune, libraries in Lake County and Porter County Illinois are seeing a surge in circulations and a rise in patronage, owing, in part to the current economy. Its terrific to hear news such as this, since libraries have been arguably one of the most underappreciated [...]
Newark needs a bookstore
Monday, June 9th, 2008The New York Times reports that in 2007, Newark, NJ “ranked last among the nation’s 69 largest cities in the number of bookstores per capita, with 15 stores for 281,000 people, or 0.53 stores per 10,000 residents.” That sounds like an irresistible call to action for an enterprising independent bookstore owner hopeful or indy looking [...]
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