Apparently, independent bookstores are receiving phone calls from Amazon. Sorry for being so mean? Nope, more of a just thought I’d ask. Shelf Awareness wove together threads from Seattle’s The Stranger, L.A.’s Skylight Books and our friends Roger and Nancy Page at Island Books for this entertaining ditty on the, um, prospects of indies carrying Kindles.
Thanks to Shelf Awareness for sharing this article from Brooklyn Based, which nicely summarizes where a lot of indie stores stand with e-books and e-readers. Here’s a helpful excerpt: “Kindle is the main device we equate with e-readers, and it’s no secret that its manufacturer is notoriously competitive. Not only does Amazon sell books at …
It made for a good story last week when some independent booksellers became critical of Seattle’s most famous librarian after she formed a partnership with Amazon to publish a few out-of-print books. What kind of story, though? It all depends on how you frame it. There’s the story that The Seattle Times told last weekend …
Amazon announced yesterday that Seattle super-librarian Nancy Pearl has signed a contract with the company to launch the Book Lust Rediscoveries series. Amazon’s press release reads: “Book Lust Rediscoveries will publish approximately six books a year and will be made available for sale in print editions via Amazon.com and as audiobooks via Amazon.com and Audible.com, at bookstores, wholesalers and …
Frankly, we’re tired of the debates, droning articles, prognosticating and the general chicken little-ing around the e-reader issue, but this is the kind of story that warms our bookseller hearts. Diana Portwood, manager at Bob’s Beach Books (Lincoln City, OR), tells us that a customer came in yesterday for The Hunger Games, the first in Suzanne Collins’ …
Foodies and wine people talk about something called mouthfeel. In this age of electronic reading devices, we book people talk about something that we could call bookfeel. I thought about this while reading poems to my daughter from a well-loved clothbound version of A.A. Milne’s When We Were Very Young. Copyright 1924 and reprinted by …
