click to enlargeHere is the what the land of books looks like to German illustrator Alphonse Woelfle.Done in 1939, Woelfle's book world consists of distinct biblio-territories with names like:Leserrepublik - Reader’s Republic,Vereinigte Buchhandelsstaaten - United States of Booksellers,Recensentia - a realm for Reviewers,Makulaturia - Waste Paper Land, andPoesia - Poetry.Found via the Strange Maps blog where one of the comments provides the following translation of the inset:1. Büchermarkt - Bookmarket2. Boulevard der Massenauflagen - boulevard of mass circulation3. Neues Bücherviertel - quarter of new books4. Villenviertel der Verleger - exclusive residential area of publishers5. Vertragshaus mit Irrgarten und Vorschuß -...
Living Portraits: Carl Van Vechten’s Color Photographs of African Americans, 1939-1964 : The Poets
Langston Hughes, 1942These portraits are just a few of the 140 never-before-exhibited color photographs taken by Carl Van Vechten.Living Portraits: Carl Van Vechten’s Color Photographs of African Americans, 1939-1964 features some 140 never-before-exhibited color photographs by Carl Van Vechten. Van Vechten (1880-1964) had an artistic vision rooted in the centrality of the talented person. He cherished accomplishment, whether in music, dance, theater, fine art, literature, sport, or advocacy.
Is the Glass Really Half Full at the Book Store
Is it to much of leap to assume that Amazon believes the Kindle will do to books what Amazon has done to the bookstore?Irene Sege piece in the Boston Globe Unchained Success Independent bookstores holding up vs. big rivalsScott Esposito's response at Conversational Reading Indie Bookstores Holding Up?"the continued parroting of this tired "corporate vs indy" storyline prevents deeper thinking about how exactly both models can coexist"similar to the "buy local" mantra
Amazon to Overhaul Marketplace for Collectible Books
Piece at AuctionbytesComment from the AuctionBytes blog on the news:You haven't lived until you've had the value of a book nosedive from $50.00 to a penny in weeks, even days while two to three repricers duke it out for lowest price and completely destroy the value of a book. This happens REPEATEDLY on Amazon day after day after day. I've had 25% of my inventory reduced to price rubble in this manner several times. It only takes one newbie at a time to set off this chain of price catastrophe and it is utterly RAMPANT!