December 2011
8 posts
The secret histories of secondhand books →
Wayne Gooderham, guardian.co.uk
The personal dedications one finds in secondhand books are often as fascinating as the text. In honour of this, we’re starting a new series showcasing my most intriguing finds See what you make of this message to Dad from Safei in a copy of A Ti…
Surprisingly, I am less sure than this guy on...
Fan-fricking-tastic.
towirr:
A gentleman named Farhad Manjoo just posted a proudly contrarian article on Slate explaining why independent bookstores are not only irrelevent but maybe even harmful. I work at an independent bookstore, so that’s an argument I’d be very very curious to see made well. Honestly, I know the failings of small booksellers as well as anyone, and it’d be good to see...
The Amazon Kerfuffle; or, Rule one of the...
But sometimes you can’t look away. It happened to me with the Gawker article that started the recent Amazon hubub.
Since I’m busy running my very own small bookstore, it’s hard to find the time to long-form respond to this flagrant eff-you-and-all-the-hard-work-you-do message Amazon is sending—I direct you to the excellent letter written byOren Teicher, the CEO of the...
