Welcome to the 6th installment in Book Patrol's series Life of Google, featuring images from the vast archives of Life magazine that now appear on Google.Back in the 1950s the College Book Co. offered free limousine service to UCLA "coeds."Not a bad a idea. Imagine larger urban independent bookstores offering free pick up and drop off services to residents and visitors within a few mile radius.Photographs taken in September 1959 by long time Life magazine photographer Grey Villet.
Kid’s Republic : The Coolest Bookstore on the Planet
Kid's Republic is a book haven for the children of Beijing. It opened in 2005 and was designed by Japanese architect Keiichiro Sako. It's stocked with picture books from all over the world and has an activity room that hosts storytelling events and anime screenings. It also offers one of the coolest settings for both kids and grown-ups to interact with books.On the design, via Luxurylaunchs.com:36-year-old Japanese architect Keiichiro Sako’s design for children’s bookstore Kid’s Republic gives full play to the innocence, fun and inquisitiveness of the young, conjuring up images of childhood that are sure to enchant anyone walking...
Book Patrol Video Digest : May 8, 2009
Happy Tree Friends episode that featuring Buddhist Monkey. 'Watch him unleash volumes of vengeance on evil paper perpetrators."The Fundementals of Book Care in 5 Easy Lessons. Created for National Library Week by George Mason University Libraries:One hour interview with Gary Snyder at NCTV11, the public access station for Nevada City, in 2007. Book Patrol first posted this one last April but it deserves an annual viewing. Besides, today is Snyder's 79th birthday:From Iowa Public TV - Memories of Dewey Readmore Books. You know, that cat that was the subject of that best-selling book that still sits on many best-seller lists:Gumby...
Unearthed Ponzi Manuscript Is No Fraud
Last year, ABAA dealer Patterson Smith of Montclair, NJ, who specializes in rare books on the law, crime & criminal justice, history and gambling, sold a collection of 2,200 books, manuscripts and pamphlets about financial sharpies, charlatans, and their schemes to defraud to John Jay College of Criminal Justice.As the New York Times reported, “The works — including titles like Frauds Exposed by Anthony Comstock, an 1880s anti-vice crusader; 'Yellow Kid’ Weil, the biography of a legendary Chicago swindler; Famous Imposters by Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula; and The Rise of Mr. Ponzi, the swindler’s curious self-published, and self-serving,...
Is Borders Indie Bound?
They're calling it the "make" book program and its part of a new strategy implemented by CEO Ron Marshall to bring Borders out of the doldrums (and possible bankruptcy) and into the bookselling limelight.How it works:They take a "few works favored by Borders national sales officials and promote them nationwide in the spirit of a local seller, from prominent placement to personally advocating ("hand-selling") books in the stores."So far the four books they have chosen have become bestsellers and "publishers have credited Borders with either being an early factor in the book's success or a key in turning a hit...