Some Competition for Amazon??

This just in from Publisher’s Weekly: The U.K. online bookseller, BookDepository.co.uk, today opened a U.S. storefront at bookdepository.com. The company, which won Direct Bookseller of the Year at the British Book Awards, is looking to compete with the deeply entrenched Amazon.com (and behind it bn.com) on pricing. Among bestsellers The Shack, for example, is $8.24 [...]

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Happy New Year !!

  Wishing book lovers everywhere a very Happy New Year!! Cheers,   Deb @ Bygone Books

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A Web Round-up ~

Here is a compilation of tidbits ~ articles, booklists, blogs, etc that I have been storing up through Christmas week; some are now outdated,  and also perhaps repeated elsewhere, but here they are ~ all things books, libraries, bookstores and blogging: *An essay at the The New York Times  on “You Never Know What You’ll [...]

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Buy Local!!

I am posting the following from Roy Blount, Jr., the President of the Authors Guild [see original post at Authors Guild.] It is an all-out call to BUY BOOKS this holiday, especially from your local bookshop: Holiday Message from Roy Blount, Jr.: Buy Books from your Local Bookstore,  Now December 11, 2008. I’ve been talking [...]

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On Bibliophiles and browsing…

Here is an interesting article by Theodore Dalrymple “Of Bibliophilia and Biblioclasm” at New English Review.  A look back at the lost art of book store browsing … and the “sacred quality of books.”

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