Exciting news from Annie Bloom’s Books in Portland: We’re thrilled to announce that we are being awarded a generous grant by author James Patterson. As you may have noticed, we’ve been using the same outdated DOS-based computers since last millennium. Thanks to the grant, we’ll soon be upgrading to a brand new inventory and point-of-sales …
Local authors, like New York Times bestselling author Kevin O’Brien pictured at left, are great supporters of local, independent bookstores. The great news for fans is that autographed copies are often available right on the shelf. For example, Seattle Mystery Bookshop, home to that great wall o’ Kevin shown in the picture, usually has signed …
We’ve recently featured a couple of Halloween lead-up posts featuring Bigfoot and Zombies, both scarily good. We’ve shown Green Bean Books’ extremely rare, real and actual, big hairy foot! We’ve recapped Queen Anne Book Company’s “Bigfoot Double Feature,” replete with Sasquatch poopcorn, howling and footprint casting. And we introduced a collection of Bigfoot books. We …
“Angel Crawford always felt like a piece of white trash and lived up to this label rather successfully. “Angel lives with her alcoholic father in a small town in Louisiana. Over the years, her father has decorated their front yard with empty beer cans and whiskey bottles. Her mother killed herself in prison. Angel herself …
The playing dirty metaphors have graduated to outright war-tinged with the news of Amazon’s discount onslaught of recent days. (See Saturday’s unscheduled [read emergency] News issue from Shelf Awareness.) Whatever you might call it, a Blitzkrieg or scorched earth tactic, it amounts to a force that bricks-and-mortar bookstores—big chains and mom and pops alike—cannot hope …
Seattle Mystery Bookshop has taken to heart the difficulty of the times and really focused on on some of the survival buzz that’s out there for the consideration of the small indie bookshop. Somewhere down in this announcement they say their new offerings will be nut-free. For now, we’re fairly confident there are nuts somewhere …
“Annie Jacobsen’s Area 51: An Uncensored History of America’s Top Secret Military Base is one of those books that comes out only after decades of secrecy. Like the raft of books on MI5, the Ultra Secret, or the CIA’s ‘family jewels,’ it’s full of fascinating stories of what really went on during the early decades …
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 …
“It is six years after the final scene in Pride and Prejudice, and Elizabeth and Darcy are living happily ever after in Pemberley with Jane and Charles living happily nearby. Their lives are going along smoothly until the eve of the social event of the season when a carriage approaches Pemerbley at full speed. When …
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 …
