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Potter for a quid

Today, Guardian blogger Nicholas Clee muses on the implications of selling the Harry Potter series at bargain basement prices. This is in light of British supermarket chain Asda's decision to sell Harry Potter and the ... Read More »

July 22, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

Should booksellers buy books “blind?”

By Scott MacDonald

Using the new Christopher Ciccone-penned Madonna tell-all as a lead-in, Slate looks at the book-world phenomena of buying books "blind": Christopher Ciccone's new celebrity tell-all, Life With My Sister Madonna, hit store shelves on Tuesday. ... Read More »

July 18, 2008 | Filed under: Bookselling, Industry news

Bookmarks: Shakespeare, Waugh, Sedaris, Seinfeld, Bush

By Nathan Whitlock

Some book-related links: Stolen Shakespeare folio recovered in U.S. (Dallas Morning News) The battle over Brideshead Revisited (Times Online) David Sedaris in Ottawa (The Ottawa Citizen) Latest round in the Seinfeld cookbook fight (The New ... Read More »

July 14, 2008 | Filed under: Book links, Libraries

Quillblog exclusive: Summer reading picks from Lawrence Hill, Michael Crummey, Sky Gilbert, Claudia Dey, and more [Updated: more authors added!]

By Nathan Whitlock

Lawrence Hill, author of the Commonwealth Prize-winning The Book of Negroes (HarperCollins Canada): The following six books are on my bedside table and will constitute my first forays into summer reading. There are five novels ... Read More »

June 23, 2008 | Filed under: Authors

Sellers in a dangerous time

By Q&Q Staff

Given the doldrums of the current bookselling market, Saturday morning's BEC panel on creative ways to increase bookstore traffic proved timely. The owners of three successful independent bookstores “ Doug Minett of Guelph, Ontario's the ... Read More »

June 14, 2008

Little Sister’s profiled

By Scott MacDonald

The Globe and Mail has posted an interesting interview with Jim Deva, one of the proprietors of Little Sister's Book & Art Emporium in Vancouver, in which he explains his reasons for wanting to sell ... Read More »

June 13, 2008 | Filed under: Bookselling

Borders dumps 20% of corporate workforce

By Scott MacDonald

There has been much speculation recently about the future of the U.S. book chain Borders, which has been on hard times. Most of the rumours focussed on a possible sale of the company to competitor ... Read More »

June 4, 2008 | Filed under: Bookselling

Borders launches Borders.com (again)

By Scott MacDonald

Back in 2001, when the dot-com boom went bust, the U.S. bookstore chain Borders decided to get out of the online bookselling biz and scrapped Borders.com. Now, however, they seem to have thought better of ... Read More »

May 28, 2008 | Filed under: Bookselling

Web to the rescue

By Shannon Jones

In his latest column, David Milofsky, Book Beat author for the Denver Post, says he understands the frustration of authors who are unable to get their books reviewed in local papers. Because a book editor ... Read More »

May 6, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

Tales of two bookstores

By Scott MacDonald

Independent bookstores seem to be getting a lot of lovin' from the media this week, with two different stores receiving full-on profile treatment. First up is Halifax's Frog Hollow Books, profiled in The Globe and ... Read More »

May 2, 2008 | Filed under: Bookselling

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Search Results by tag: bookselling

Potter for a quid

Should booksellers buy books “blind?”

Bookmarks: Shakespeare, Waugh, Sedaris, Seinfeld, Bush

Quillblog exclusive: Summer reading picks from Lawrence Hill, Michael Crummey, Sky Gilbert, Claudia Dey, and more [Updated: more authors added!]

Sellers in a dangerous time

Little Sister’s profiled

Borders dumps 20% of corporate workforce

Borders launches Borders.com (again)

Web to the rescue

Tales of two bookstores

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