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Book prices for pundits

As New York Times critic Dwight Garner highlights on his blog, Abebooks is reporting on its website that collectible editions of Barack Obama's Dreams from My Father, the Democrat hopeful's 1995 autobiography, have sold through ... Read More »

January 8, 2008 | Filed under: Bookselling

Should Amazon buy eBay?

By Nathan Whitlock

The answer is "yes," according to Bits, The New York Times's tech blog: For years it was impossible to even suggest that Amazon buy eBay because eBay's market value was three or four times that ... Read More »

December 17, 2007 | Filed under: Book news, Bookselling, Opinion

Ottawa bookseller offers U.S. price

By Nathan Whitlock

Christopher Smith, co-owner of Collected Works bookstore in Ottawa, says pressure from consumers unhappy with the gap between U.S. and Canadian prices on books has spurred the store to sell dual-priced books for the U.S. ... Read More »

October 17, 2007 | Filed under: Bookselling, Industry news

Waterstone's display fees revealed!

By Leigh Anne Williams

Sometimes it's fun to be reminded that what's considered business as usual within the book industry is shocking and distasteful to civilians hearing about it for the first time. In the U.K., the Times Online ... Read More »

June 20, 2007 | Filed under: Bookselling, Industry news

Gadget Watch, Part 2: Tamblyn's Sony Reader experiment

By Q&Q Staff

BookNet Canada CEO Michael Tamblyn spoke at a Saturday morning seminar on "Digitization and the Future of Canadian Bookselling," which focused on e-readers. In order to assess the viability of the medium, Tamblyn himself tried ... Read More »

June 9, 2007 | Filed under: Bookselling, Events

A sad day in Gotham

By Nathan Whitlock

A bit of New York literary history ended yesterday, the New York Times reports, as the inventory of Gotham Book Mart in midtown Manhattan was sold off to the highest bidder. The bookstore had served ... Read More »

May 23, 2007 | Filed under: Bookselling, Industry news

More books, less local content in B.C.

By Leigh Anne Williams

The Tyee recently posted a good-news/bad-news article about the state of books in B.C. The good news is that local publishers are doing well and the Vancouver International Writers Festival is putting the province on ... Read More »

May 1, 2007 | Filed under: Bookselling

Amazon recommends and offends

By Alison Jones

Margaret Atwood finds items that are "quite offensive" when she browses online, at least on Amazon.com. According to an article from The Times, Atwood spoke out against online book browsing at the London Book Fair ... Read More »

April 24, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Bookselling

Friday photo: Bookish graffiti

By Nathan Whitlock

This week's Friday photo is from a Flickr photographer identified only as gbalogh, who documents Toronto neighbourhoods, architecture, and grafitti. Quillblog speculates that the artist who painted this wall may be a fan of Silver ... Read More »

April 13, 2007 | Filed under: Bookselling

Bringing sexy back

By Alison Jones

As frequent readers of Quillblog can attest, reading is sexy. Now we can share the message through clothing and accessories. The website buyolympia is selling T-shirts, buttons, bags, and bumper stickers with the slogan "reading ... Read More »

April 3, 2007 | Filed under: Bookselling

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