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Local Books iPhone App: A Literary UrbanSpoon?

Los Angeles Times | Carolyn Kellogg | Posted 01.07.2010 | Books

Read More: Libraries, Independent Bookstores, iPhone Apps, Book Events, Bookstores, Local Books App, Local Books, Books, Librarything, Urbanspoon, Books News

LibraryThing, a major social-networking-through-books site, launched its first iPhone app yesterday. Local Books is free and lists bookstores, librari...

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Kirkus Book Review May Be Revived

AP | Posted 01.05.2010 | Books

Read More: Libraries, Publishing, Book Reviews, Book Publishing, Kirkus Reviews, Publishing Magazine, Bookstores, Books, Eric Liebetrau, Kirkus, Books News

NEW YORK — Kirkus Reviews, a longtime publishing magazine that was supposed to shut down, may be getting a reprieve. According to a posting Tue...

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UK Supermarket Tesco Helps Struggling Independent Bookshop

The Guardian | Alison Flood | Posted 01.05.2010 | Books

Read More: Uk, Price Wars. Book Discounts, Independent Bookstores, Tesco, Bookstores, Bookselling, Grocery Stores, Supermarkets, Books, Independent Booksellers, Bestsellers, Amazon, Books News

It's no secret that, faced with cutthroat competition from the supermarkets and Amazon, independent booksellers are struggling to survive. But in a ch...

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Book Publishing 10 Years From Now: Smashwords Founder Mark Coker's Predictions

mediabistro.com | Jeff Rivera | Posted 01.04.2010 | Books

Read More: Publishing, Reading, Book Publishing, Bookstores, Bookselling, Future of Publishing, Smashwords, Books, Ebooks, Digital Reading, Ereaders, Mark Coker, Books News

Today, we had the opportunity to ask Mark Coker of Smashwords what his predictions are for the year 2020....

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The Year's 9 Best Books From Small Publishers

Kevin Sampsell | Posted 01.01.2010 | Books

Read More: Authors, Two Dollar Radio, Independent Booksellers, Book Publishing, Powell's, Small Press, Jello Horse, Publishing Genius, Bookstores, Small Publisher, Independents, Books News

I see a lot of cool stuff from authors before anyone else has even heard of them. 2009 was no exception. Here are the highlights from my own personal reading list.

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Shallow Reporting or Hidden Agendas: A Rant About Newspapers

Christin Evans | Posted 12.27.2009 | Books

Read More: Newspapers, Bookstores, Journalism, Independent Bookstores, Mcsweeneys, Bookstore Closings, Books News

Our biggest complaint with newspapers is the shallow reporting that is regularly printed in the name of news. For an example of such reporting, we turn to the world of independent bookstores.

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Boulder Author Stole His Own Book

Boulder Daily Camera | Vanessa Miller | Posted 12.22.2009 | Books

Read More: Theft, Book Selling, Boulder Book Store, Stealing Books, Independent Bookstores, Bookstores, The New York Times, Authors, Shoplifting, Boulder, Books, Books News

A recent New York Times article about book thefts has the online community atwitter about one mysterious Boulder author accused of feeling a little to...

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Borders Plans To Sell eBooks

AP | MAE ANDERSON | Posted 12.16.2009 | Books

Read More: Borders Books, Bookstores, Borders, Booksellers, Borders eBooks, Books, Ebooks, Amazon, Ereaders, Barnes and Noble, Books News

NEW YORK — Book seller Borders Group Inc. is entering the electronic book market, partnering with a Canadian digital book company to sell e-book...

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Left Bank Books Gambles With New Store

nytimes.com | A. G. SULZBERGER | Posted 12.15.2009 | New York

Read More: West Village, Left Bank Books, Bookstores, New York City, New York, Independent Bookstores, New York News

Unlike similar bookstores that have recently closed -- the Oscar Wilde Bookshop is the latest example -- Mr. Herzinger, owner of Left Bank Books, said...

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Publishers Pay For Bookstore Displays

Fast Company | Adam Penenberg | Posted 12.07.2009 | Books

Read More: Bestsellers, Gift Books, Holiday Shopping, Barnes and Noble, Supermarket, Marketing, Borders, Booksellers, Viral Loop, Publishers, Punkd, Bookstores, Amazon, Books News

Step into any Barnes & Noble and the first thing you see are tables covered in books. 'Tis the season, so there's the "Happy Holidays" table, with its...

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Google Books And Kindles: A Concentration Camp Of Ideas

Alan Kaufman | Posted 12.04.2009 | Books

Read More: Wwi, Nazis, Kindle, Google Books, Reading, Bookstores, Nazism, Technology, Holocaust, Books, Ebooks, Hitler, Ereaders, Crematoria, Books News

The hi-tech campaign to relocate books to Google and replace books with Kindles is, in its essence, a deportation of the literary culture to a kind of easily monitored concentration camp of ideas.

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Borders Grasps at Circuit City Gameplan

Gerald Sindell | Posted 12.03.2009 | Books

Read More: Marketplace of Ideas, New Non-Fiction, Bookstores, Browsing, Amazon, Borders Bookstore, Books News

If you're just interested in what's new, you now need to visit twenty or thirty categories all over the store to see what's new in each one. Behold the art of browsing, enhanced.

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Bookstore Celebrates 200 Year Anniversary

The Boston Globe | Brian Benson | Posted 12.03.2009 | Books

Read More: Shopping Local, Independent Bookstores, Oldest Bookstore, Bookstores, Boston, Bookselling, Indie Bookstores, Books, Andover Bookstore, Second Oldest Bookstore, Books News

The store - the second oldest in the country after a bookstore in Pennsylvania - features a fireplace, reading nooks, and a popular weekly author seri...

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Cyber Monday Brings Bump In Book Sales

Christian Science Monitor | Marjorie Kehe | Posted 12.01.2009 | Books

Read More: Buying Books, Amazon.com, Independent Bookstores, eBook Sales, Bookstores, Cyber Monday, Bookselling, Ebooks, Books, Book Sales, Amazon, Books News

For some shoppers, post-Thanksgiving shopping means dreams of an Olympus 10.0 Megapixel or a widescreen Bluetooth GPS navigator. But there are also co...

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Borders, Barnes & Noble Experience Major Losses

Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 11.25.2009 | Books

Read More: Ereaders, Nook, Walmart, Price Wars, Stocks, Books, Borders UK, Barnes and Noble, Bookselling, Bookstores, Amazon, Kindle, Borders, Digital Books, Bookstore Chains, Ebooks, Books News

Things aren't looking good for big booksellers Borders and Barnes & Noble. The AP reports that both chains have posted major losses for this quarter, ...

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Jon Stewart: New Yorkers React To "Going Rogue" (VIDEO)

Posted 11.19.2009 | Books

Read More: Reading, Jon Stewart, Sarah Palin Going Rogue, Bookstores, Going Rogue, Books, New Yorkers, Sarah Palin Book, The Daily Show, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin Memoir, Books News

How are New Yorkers reacting to the recent release of Sarah Palin's new book, "Going Rogue"? Last night on "The Daily Show," John Oliver went to New Y...

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Recession Confession: If Only I Stopped Buying Poetry Books I Could Still Afford...

The Poetry Foundation | Jeff Gordinier | Posted 11.18.2009 | Books

Read More: Tess Gallagher, Li-Young Lee, Books, Nikki Giovanni, Poets, Bookstores, Poetry Books, Poetry, Recession, Buying Books, A.R. Ammons, Poems, Adam Zagajewski, Tom Clark, John Keats, Reading, Books News

Jeff Gordinier The Poetry Foundation In Port Angeles, Washington, it was Tess Gallagher. I had stopped for a lunch of yogurt and fresh figs on ...

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Bulletin from the Rechargable Electronic Reading Council

Bruce McCall | Posted 11.13.2009 | Books

Read More: Future of the Book, Publishing, Kindle, Paper, Rare Books, Bookstores, Humor, Books, Ebooks, Paper Books, Nook, Ereaders, Books News

With an e-book, you can deface the reading area to your heart's content and then simply wipe the viewing screen clean with a damp cloth.

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Brooklyn Bookstore Celebrates 10 Year Anniversary

The New York Times | CHRISTINE HAUGHNEY | Posted 11.11.2009 | Books

Read More: Brooklyn Bookstore, Independent Bookstore, Spoonbill & Sugartown Booksellers, Independent Bookstores, Bookstores, Books, New York Bookstore, Booksellers, Books News

Spoonbill & Sugartown Booksellers observed its 10th anniversary Tuesday morning with a ceremony on the sidewalk in front of the shop, on Bedford Avenu...

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Brits Complain That Chains Stores Are Killing Books

The Guardian | Stuart Jeffries | Posted 11.10.2009 | Books

Read More: Uk, England, Publishing, Independent Bookstores, British Bookstores, UK Bookstores, Bookstores, Bookselling, Future of Publishing, Books, Britain, Waterstone's, Books News

"They simply treat books as a commodity," says Nicholas Spice, publisher of the London Review of Books, and one of the chain's sternest critics. "Ther...

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Books That Can Help Our Children Find a Path Through a Scary World (And Maybe Make Things a Little Better)

John Mesjak | Posted 10.29.2009 | Books

Read More: Vegetarian, Book Publishing, Tim Flannery, Afghanistan, Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson, Pakistan, Fast Food Nation, Omnivore's Dilemma, Climate Change, Weather Makers, Al Gore, Book, Bookstores, Global Warming, Eric Schlosser, Books News

Wherever your children are first exposed to the messy facts of our world, there will inevitably be questions about it. Luckily, young adult versions of informative books are here to help.

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Evolve or Die: Why Reinvent Independent Bookstores?

Praveen Madan | Posted 10.29.2009 | Books

Read More: Book Business, Book Industry, Reinvention, Independent Booksellers, Booksmith, Charles Darwin, Independent Bookstores, Walmart, Target, Bookstores, Bookselling, San Francisco, Books, Books News

We believe that independent bookstores can have a great future and we are betting our careers on it.

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Not a Simple Price War -- It's a Fight Over What You Get to Read

William Petrocelli | Posted 10.28.2009 | Books

Read More: Predatory Pricing, Mass Merchandisers, Best-Sellers, Independent Bookstores, New Authors, Walmart, Price Wars, Wal-Mart, Book Publishing, Bookselling, Bestsellers, Target, Publishing, Bookstores, Books, Amazon, Books News

What looks like a simple price war between Amazon, Target, and Walmart over a handful of bestsellers is symptomatic of a much deeper problem in the book business.

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Indie Bookstores Reject Bestseller Price Wars

The Cleveland Plain Dealer | Janet Cho | Posted 10.22.2009 | Books

Read More: Target, Price Wars, Independent Bookstores, Wal-Mart, Bookstores, Bookselling, Indie Bookstores, Books, Book Wars, Amazon, Bestsellers, Booksellers, Sears, Books News

Independent booksellers say they have no intention of joining the fight among the bigger chain stores over the $9 prices of 10 highly anticipated best...

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What Will Your Book Be?

Eileen Gittins | Posted 10.22.2009 | Books

Read More: Writers, Publishing, Book Printing, Writing, Book Publishing, Authors, Bookstores, Photography, Self Publishing, Books, Blurb, Books News