Much has happened in the bookselling world since the rise of the online bookseller. One of the areas that has taken the biggest hit is in the proper cataloging and describing of a book offered for sale.So for your entertainment pleasure Book Patrol has created a Hall of Shame on Twitter. Though it will be predominately populated with real life book descriptions found on real life online marketplaces there will also be other inductees as the situation warrants. You know, like the guy in New Zealand who got busted for taking pictures of women's feet in the libraryEnjoy!
The Book Coaches of "The School of Life"
Going on a trip and don't know what books to bring.Is your best friend getting married and you want to supply the reading material for her honeymoon.Well, the Bibliotherapy department of The School of Life can help.For around $75 you get a half hour consultation and "you'll come away with a mini-prescription for an instant literary fix" with a more "detailed prescription" to follow.The School of Life is a "new cultural enterprise...offering intelligent instruction on how to lead a fulfilled life." They offer classes, "stigma-free psychotherapy, secular sermons, conversation meals, a floating faculty of experts and a new kind of...
Harrell Fletcher’s "American War"
In 2005 Harrell Fletcher spent a month in Vietnam as part of an international artists retreat.While there Fletcher spent a lot of time at The War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City, a memorial museum for what is referred to in Vietnam as The American War. The Museum used to be called The Museum of American War Crimes, then it was The War Crimes Museum then we got friendly with Vietnam again and it was renamed The War Remnants Museum.He says "I was so affected by what I saw at the museum that I went back several times and...
Book Patrol Welcomes Nancy Campbell
We are pleased to announced that Nancy Campbell has joined the Book Patrol team where she will be covering the wide world of Book Arts.Campbell studied English at Oxford University and fine press printing and bookbinding at Barbarian Press in British Columbia. After working for several years in print studios in Britain and America she landed in London where she now runs the book arts department at Bertram Rota Booksellers.She has also published three books of poetry and her writings on book arts and illustration have appeared in a variety of journals.We are delighted to have Nancy on board and...
AbeAzon. Amazon’s Acquisition of AbeBooks : The Day After
or Godzilla buys Frankenstein. Throngs still waiting for Superman.It will be a long time before the dust settles on this seismic event but here are some initial thoughts on the acquisition.First - How much did it cost?The folks over at TechVibes venture a guess that Amazon paid between $90-$120 million. Since Boris Wertz, former COO of AbeBooks, is on the Board of Directors of both TechVibes and AbeBooks, I'm going to believe the number is somewhere in that ballpark.Winners:AbebooksHits a home run. They have been steadily building their offerings through there own acquisitions preparing themselves for a potential buyout. Many...