Bookshelves in the area where Jaycee Lee Dugard was held captive by Phillip GarridoPhotograph: Nick Stern/Redthinkmedia.comThe image above comes from the amazing slideshow at the guardian of the home of Phillip Garrido, who is being held in the abduction and kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard.In Judging criminal suspects by their book David Barnett
Top Ten Most Expensive Books Sold on ABE, July, 2009
ABE (Advanced Book Exchange) has just released its list of the top ten prices obtained amongst hundreds of thousands of books bought through them during the month of July. They are the rarest or most collectible of books offered and sold.10. Sefer Tehilim by Sebastian Munster, a Basel printing of this 16th century work by the German Hebrew scholar. $3,464.9. The Bible, an edition limited to 75 copies, printed by the Nonesuch Press of London in 1927. $3,7508. Histoire de la mesure du temps par les horloges by Ferdinand Berthoud, a book on time measurement by the Swiss watchmaker, published...
Is CBS Becoming the Book Network?
CBS has announced plans for a new series on the publishing world. The show called Open BookCBS Sunday Morning has been consistently featuring book related storiesThere was this great piece on French Bibliomaniacs that we covered on Book Patroland then this one, that we covered as well, on the Happy Tales Bookshop in Wisconsin that was built in a old manure storage tank!
Before Grunge : Jini Dellaccio’s Rock & Roll Photographs
click to enlarge"Looking back now, it's clear that Jini Dellaccio is the premier visual interpreter for Northwest rock and roll artists during the '60s and '70s. Jini truly gave Northwest rock and roll its 'mystique'. Here's proof." ~ Barrie R. Jackson from the IntroductionToday marks the 45th anniversary of the Beatles first appearance in Washington State. It was a few years before this historic event that Jini Dellaccio picked up a camera and started photographing the music scene in the Northwest.Before long, Dellaccio was firmly entrenched at the center of the Northwest rock scene. Northwest bands like The Wailers, The...
Alibris Jumps in Bed with Better World Books and Takes Their Booksellers With Them
Imagine the shock many booksellers felt when they heard that unbeknownst to them they were now selling their books through Better World Books (BWB).Yes, the same BWB that has plagued the bookselling world by mastering the art of penny selling; the same for-profit company that parades around in a non-profit guise (see our previous post Better World Books : Are They Better For the Book World).Alibris has recently entered into a partnership with BWB to provide them with the inventory of their booksellers. That inventory now shows up on BWB and is attributed to the various independent booksellers.If that alone...