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Books | Think inside the box

The tale of Mr Dass and the worlds biggest...

Booksellers Take On The Internet

Book collectors discover a small market when...

Man's love of reading costs him his home

Religion in the News - washingtonpost.com

“Bookzilla” is what I call it. An innovative...

Fortune as Fate: The Story Of Two Poetry...

Two Grande Dames of Bookselling Hit the...

The play is called “Bookends” and it is billed as a “hauntingly beautiful musical...

Book gets hook - NJ.com

Rare Books And Rock N’ Roll

A Seductive Spectacle: The languid bazaar of...

An Issue Point With The Harry Potter...

At least 200 people across the country who bought “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”...

Some 'Potter' fans aren't getting the whole...

Eco-Libris: A Green Light in a Dark Sky

An estimated 20 million trees are cut down every year to provide books to the U.S. marketplace....

Review- DarkNet: Hollywood's War Against...

Book Patrol is pleased to publish this review written by fellow bookseller Lynn Wienck of The...

“The 29th Annual Colorado Antiquarian Book Market Seminar,...”
— Life: SIGNINGS & SUCH |...

Books To Be Desired: Penelope Umbrico's...

How many unsolicited home improvement magazines arrive in your mailbox? I would guess these...

The Libraries of Power

“Personal libraries have always been a biopsy of power” says Harriet Rubin in her New...

C.E.O. Libraries Reveal Keys to Success - New...

Woman steals Ark. library's fine money -

The Interior Designer and the Bookseller

There was a short post yesterday in the Good Questions section of the Apartment Therapy New York...

Good Questions: How To Start a Book...

Another Amazon Outgrowth: The Penny...

It is no secret that Amazon and has single-handedly corrupted the entire bookselling industry. We...

Dickerson couple at home with a few good...

When Librarians Go Bad, Texts Tumble - New...

My Potter Fantasy

Harry will die or he might live but as soon as that butter statue of Harry at the Iowa State Fair...

"Potter at the fair? You butter believe...

Books that are defined by their covers / Bay...

What's in a book? Take a whiff | Chicago...

Censored Book

Censored Book Barton Lidice Benes 26.7 x 20.3 12.7 1974 Book Tied in Rope, nailed, gessoed and...

Recycled Underwear and the Spread of...

“And when the underwear was worn out, it provided a steady supply of material used by...

The Shelfari Climb

The big news in the book social networking world this week was Shelfari’s announcement that it...

Fine Presses and the Bookseller

That is the title of the article I wrote for the new issue of Amphora the publication of the Alcuin...

Wilde Times

“The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing....

Potterpalooza

The University Bookstore here in Seattle launched its contribution to Pottermania. A week long...

India's News Calligraphers Do It on Deadline

Graphic designer Lorraine Wild finds order in...

One Man's Literary Compass by William Denttel...

The Heritage Effect. The Book Trade...

It has been a long time since a funeral was held at 8540 Melrose Avenue in West Hollywood. It...

EPA Libraries Get a Lift. Bill Heads to...

The Senate Appropriations Committee has ordered the EPA to reopen all their closed libraries. The $2...

Let The Web Be Your Travel Agent: via...

The case against books: Speaking Volumes

Ohio State University Press to release some...

Hollywood Comes To The Library

Ann Seidle’s documentary Hollywood Librarian premiered on opening night of the recently held...

Where do the books go when a college closes?...