click to enlargeIn THE BOOK Project graphic designer Isabella Vaverka adds a new layer to her library. Each book is shrouded in a printed white cover that Vaverka uses to share a unique story or memory that relates to each book. What the book is about takes a back seat to how the book fits into her life.click to enlargeThere's the:The Book In which I discovered a bill for the Beatles-record "Michelle"The Book I've Borrowed from SomeoneThe Book I found in the Garbage...The Book No One Has Touched For More Than 30 YearsOf the project Vaverka says:Today there are thousands...
Online Bookselling Pollutes Another Innocent Mind
My inbox is on fire today. Here is another doozy, a perfect specimen of how the barrier-free selling of books online has become the number one threat to traditional sane bookselling practices.***********************************"Where the Wild Things Are- byM. SENDAK -HC, 1963, 1rst edition, rare, urgent quick sale only $2700- listed at $10,000 and rising currently- major profit opp!VERY RARE COPY OF 1963 WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE BY MAURICE SENDAK. ONE OF THE MOST COLLECTIBLE AND ELUSIVE CHILDREN'S BOOKS OF ALL TIME,IT WAS PUBLISHED IN NY BY HARPER AND ROW. THIS FIRST EDITION IS MISSING DUST JACKET, IS IN CLOTH BINDING...
Want to Disappear? New book claims to show you how
Couldn't help passing this little gem along that arrived in my inbox."We are privacy consultants Frank M. Ahearn and Eileen C. Horan authors of How to Disappear which is the worlds #1 guide for disappearing. We travel the world assisting people who need to vanish, fall off the grid or escape from a stalker.How to Disappear is a realistic book about privacy and covers several areas like fending off a stalker, deterring identity theft, living offshore, living virtual and other tools that teach people how to disappear in the electronic age."No, it's not published by Blackwater though I suspect it...
What Tomorrow May Bring : At the Bookstore and In the Classroom
Here is Moriah Jovan's idea for The Perfect Bookstore. The Espresso elements have nothing to do with coffee but relate to the new print on demand machine that is quietly sweeping the nation. While I agee with Jovan that the current publishing/bookseller model is in tatters and in need of serious revision and that we are in dire need of a "new breed of independent bookseller" I'm quite sure this new model, by itself, has nothing to do with books.I would call this destination a Print on Demand/Digitial Download Station before I would call it a Bookstore.But as Jovan points...
Book Cloud Passes Over the Baltimore Sun
It seemed innocent enough. The Baltimore Sun runs a story, Money Wasters To Avoid, offering readers various ways to save some money during these challenging times. The piece included the usual money-saving tips like eat out less, wash your own car, rent DVD's instead of buying them, and a few more abstract ones like don't speed because tickets are expensive, you burn more gas and if you're caught your insurance premiums will go up.All sounds good. But then they included the almighty book."Some books are nice to have - like your favorite one, for example. But really, buying the newest...