Notes from all over
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]
Comments
Yeah, what do you think about the comments about text exchanges being a "stupid frat boy business idea"?
I read that post too, but it's true. There are are an abundance of text exchange sites that have very few users.
Most people prefer to just use the faithfuls. I really enjoy your blog though and I'm going to link to it at my site
TextbookPOWER.com
Which is dedicated to this type of thing. Let me know what you think.
Posted by: R. Kennedy | May 30, 2006 4:33 PM