Have a happy and safe New Year, booklovers! Don’t forget that Libro.fm audiobooks and ebooks are immediate-gratification online purchases through most independent bookstores’ sites, so if you run out of new books before midnight, you can still stay safe and happy with new books for the new year.
Whereever you are, stop right there and find a copy of Two Many Birds. I feel like this book has the answers we are looking for after this soul crushing week. What happens when those in charge go too far and how can the power of community provide not only healing, connection but new direction? …
I have been reading books since the early 1950s and reviewing/posting the reviews for the past decade. I do not know how I missed Blake Pierce for all of those years. I have just read book one in the European Voyage Cozy Mystery series entitled Murder (and Baklava). It has two components that I am …
Author Pam Stucky is joined by booksellers from Madison Books (James Crossley), Queen Anne Book Company (Tegan Tigani), and Ballast Book Company (Suzanne Droppert) to discuss why and how we can support our local bookstores, especially now in this difficult pandemic season. Local bookstores have been facing growing challenges for several years, but the pandemic …
by Beth Elderkin for i09 8/15/18 Stephen King isn’t the only author who’s becoming more and more prevalent on the big and small screens. It was just announced that Ursula K. Le Guin’s sci-fi novelette Nine Lives is getting a movie adaptation, adding to the growing pile of Le Guin works that are reportedly in the works. The accomplished author …
There’s a quip I sometimes use at the conclusion of a book purchase. It’s meant to be amusing but also contains a serious grain of truth. When the customer is in a good mood, my occasional comment as I hand over the selected items is, “These are ready for immediate use the moment you get …
Check out Bellingham’s Village Books’ video love for the Kobo over the kindle… Some ereaders give you choice! And have a magically-appearing, smiling staff of helpful, real people who know about books AND ebooks behind them.
We’re hearing about great results from Unbridled Books‘ three-day offer last week of 25 eBooks for 25 cents each at IndieCommerce stores selling Google eBooks (i.e. You were out of luck if you bought a Kindle). For bookstores, it was a way to raise awareness about their eBook programs, which was part of Unbridled’s plan …
Len Vlahos, the Chief Operating Officer of the American Booksellers Association, the national association of independent bookstores in the United States, traveled to New Zealand and Australia last month, to talk about the effects of digitization on the book world, otherwise known as eBooks. Apparently, New Zealand and Australia are about 18 months behind the …
