Bookselling news:
- The San Jose Mercury News reports that deals at local bookstore sales can be even cheaper than prices online
- The story of yet another textbook swapping site (every US college campus probably has one or two) — and why a Silicon Valley blogger calls textbook exchanges “stupid frat-boy business ideas”
- BellaOnline reviews eight different online book buyback websites
- Nigel Beale’s podcast interview with Abebooks COO Boris Wertz, dealing with changing policies, search functionality, and the LibraryThing investment
- The strong Canadian dollar is causing Canadian booksellers and buyers to complain about high prices, relative to those in the U.S.
New blogs:
- Jeff at Using Books posted a big list of bookseller blogs back in April
- Joyce at the Bibliophile Bullpen links to members of the Bibliophile mailing list who also blog
- Alibris has a new corporate book blog, featuring book reviews and U.S. book news
Funny book jackets:
- “Read It Before Hollywood Does” ad campaign for the Association of Librarians of the Czech Republic (via Bibliophile Bullpen)
- “The Pulp Canon: Lurid new covers for The Iliad, Little Women, and other classics” from Slate (also via Bibliophile Bulletin)
- Abebooks’ “not” book ad campaign
[Now Reading: Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson]
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