Merry Christmas, Booklovers!
Tidings of comfort and joy to booklovers and booksellers! May you have a healthy and happy holiday.
Tidings of comfort and joy to booklovers and booksellers! May you have a healthy and happy holiday.
After a crazy fall, we decided not to host a Christmas Day friends-who-stayed-in-town dinner for the first time in several years. In thinking how we could do something with our time and freedom other than lay among the wads of wrapping paper, eat, watch football (me), my wife Megan came up with a brilliant idea. …
From Shelf Awareness Pro newsletter, January 4: “Indie Customer Makes ‘Penance, Reparations’ Payment;” In the mail shortly after the Christmas rush, Elliott Bay Book Co., Seattle, Wash., received a check for $94.89. The memo section of the check read: “Voluntary penance and reparations for buying books at A.” General manager Tracy Taylor commented: “While we’ve received …