If you don't see your favorite librarian in the next couple of days there is a good chance he or she is here with us in Seattle.Thousands of librarians from all over the country are ascending to the Emerald City for the American Library Association (ALA) mid-winter meeting.The most literate city in America welcomes you to library heaven and we can't wait until you see our new downtown library!There are over 2000 meetings and events and over 100 different discussion groups, covering all the major topics affecting the trade today.There will be book parties and book related events all over...
Forbes & Book Collecting
There was plenty of buzz in the book blogosphere back at the beginning of December when Forbes released their special report on BooksIn reading the special report and spending some time on Forbes.com I was struck by the absence of anything to do with the non-new book market. The articles in the report dealt with the many different aspects of book culture but none ventured into role of the secondary market in book culture.When I checked the Forbes.com website I noticed that the collecting segment of the ForbesLife contained very little if anything on book collecting.Finding this omission a little...
Buck Mulligan on Broadway
Imagine this:It is the late sixties and your in New York. The world around you is a changing, the chimes of freedom are a ringing. Peace, Love and lots of mind altering chemicals are in the air. You head over to Broadway to catch a show. You choose the wildly popular musical Fantasticks. As the official website for the production states "Before the mud of Woodstock there were the love songs of the Fantasticks". You find your seat start reading the program and then you see this!“Stately plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead bearing a bowl of lather on...
Reading Recycled: Time to Print Green
There is a quiet green storm brewing in the book world. A storm that has been a long time coming, long overdue and when it hits will change the face of publishing forever.The Independent has a brief take on the push by authors and some publishers to print their books on recycled paper.The lowlight:-"pulp and paper mills produce ... some of the most toxic substances on Earth" wrote poet and green activist Mandy Haggith in an article published in Mslexia magazine.Think of the smell of some of the new books you opened recently.A few highlights:-The Canadian editions of all the...
O.J. Comes Clean – I Didn’t Write It
In my previous post regarding the "If I Did It" fiasco I talked about how O.J didn't even write the book and that there are probably some 400,000 copies that were printed before the books cancellation which pretty much guarantees that there will be plenty of copies floating around sooner or later.Well, what do you know, Newsweek has somehow come up with a copy of the book and has a feature article focusing on one of the chapters.The book was "obtained from an anonymous source".In a telephone interview yesterday O.J. says that the chapter of "If I Did It" in...