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Super Thursday in the UK
No, it's not primary season in the UK but today marks the official beginning of the Christmas season for the publishing world.Close to 800 titles are being published today, about three times more than on an average day, all in hopes that they will crack the top ten and land in Christmas stockings throughout the kingdom.Mark Brown's piece in the Guardian, "Book world's Super Thursday launches 800 titles in race for Christmas top 10"
Go Shopping – Help the Public School Library
Now here's an idea worth spreading.Caroline Kennedy and Sarah Jessica Parker helped kick off the annual Shop for Public Schools week in New York City. Over 200 retail locations across the city will donate part of their proceeds this week to public school libraries."Think of it like a rebate made payable in library books" is one way they frame it.The event is put on by The Fund for Public Schools, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving New York City’s public schools; Caroline Kennedy is the Vice-Chair.Below is the perfect, pure New York, tote bag designed by Cynthia Rowley for the...
Poor Richard’s Biblomac
Though it sounds like a cross between Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanack and an e-reader by Apple, the Biblomac was a short lived newspaper for the book world. It debuted in New York in August of 1940 and lasted all of 3 issues.Stephen Ferguson at Princeton University's Rare Book and Special Collection blog unearthed a copy of the premier issue and shares an excerpt of the lead editorial written by one of the publishers, Herbert Burstein. For the most part, Poor Richard’s Biblomac reflects an idea we have - an idea that anyone whose stock-in-trade is books - the librarian,...
A Modern Marvel : The Library of Jay Walker
Inspiration Point"Nothing quite prepares you for the culture shock of Jay Walker's library" is how Steven Levy begins his piece for Wired on this amazing library. Though Walker has opened his library in the past to select schools, executives, politicians, and scholars this is the first time he has invited a member of the press to have a look.Walker, the founder of Priceline.com and Walker Digital, is an inventor and entrepreneur who has been twice been named by the editors of TIME magazine as one of the 50 most influential business leaders in the digital age. Business Week selected him...