Several of the 2009 Academy Award nominations include books that were adapted for the silver screen. To catch up on your winter reading before the Awards, check out these titles: Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman: Best Art Direction & Costume The Reader by
Many of us in the US book selling community have been concerned about recent legislation that was intended to offer new safety standards for children’s products. The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) was created to address concerns about harmful substances, such as lead, found
Oddly, although its one of my favorite early twentieth century books and I’ve spent 12 years working in the book world, I don’t remember ever having seen a first of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night in a dust jacket – until this morning.
We’ve been receiving increasing reports from booksellers that they have been receiving somewhat menacing letters regarding PCI compliance from credit card processors, listing all the potential penalities for non-compliance, such as the following excerpt from one such letter: Not terribly startling, except this is the
A gorgeous, signed copy of Einstein’s canonical book, Relativity! One of the more interesting books that passed through my wife and my hands when we owned a bookstore was a first edition of The Evolution of Physics by Albert Einstein and Leopold Infeld, signed by
The Orwell Prize has taken blogging to a new place and time. The British prize annual British prize for excellence in political writing takes its name from writer George Orwell. Beginning in August of 2008, the Orwell Prize has taken an innovative approach to presenting
Here’s our first pass at creating a promotional documentary / video for BiblioWorks (the non-profit we founded and continue to support that builds libraries in rural South America and provides support to local literacy organizations here in WNC). Thanks to Paul Sherar for his volunteer
The Boston Globe is reporting increasing usage of public libraries, due to the down economy (yep, that’s right, you folks heard it here first in June, when we predicted library usage would increase after looking at similar patterns during the Great Depression). Now, this, of
Found in Rare Maps and Atlases on Biblio.com: The English Atlas by Pitt, Moses, published in 4 volumes in 1680 with colored plates (as you can see below). Make sure and check out the detailed zoom on this image:
On my way in to the office this morning, NPR had a piece on the upcoming movie based on Stephenie Meyers’ Twilight and its effects on an unfortunate small town in Washington. It seems Forks has been transformed from a bucolic near-paradise deep in the