A Tale of Two Cities: Amazon opens a bookstore while Indiebound adds a ‘Buy Now’ button

Published November 4, 2015 | By Michael Lieberman

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Here comes the next tremor in the book universe.

Amazon.com, the world’s largest online bookseller, has opened it’s first physical bookshop!

Amazon Books has opened in Seattle’s University District just a few miles from Amazon headquarters.

A peak at some of the treasures of the Folger Shakespeare Library

Published June 15, 2015 | By Michael Lieberman

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Did you know that 82 of the 233 surviving First Folios of Shakespeare’s plays live at The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.?

To mark the quadricentennial of his death The Folger is sending a few copies on a tour… Continue reading →

Published May 26, 2015 | By Michael Lieberman

Somebody in Asheville, North Carolina doesn’t think too kindly of two-time U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins.

According to the proprietors of The Captain’s Bookshelf someone took a copy of Nine Horses by Collins from the shelf, brought it home, then… Continue reading →