When Barnes & Noble decided to close their Chelsea store in New York City many thought that the small rare- and out-of-print-book department that was housed at that location for the last 8 years would disappear too.Instead the company decided to not only relocate the department to a larger store on Broadway and 66th Street but is also "spending a significant sum on the department, installing custom display cases with locked glass doors" and moving it to a more prominent location on the second floor of the store.Although they are claiming that there are no plans to "replicate the effort...
Another online book…
...I like a lot, this time a children's picture book. Christoph Niemann's The Boy's and the Subway is his charming account of his sons' love affair with NYC transit. Nicely captured.
Power Moby Dick
I really like this elegantly annotated online version of Moby Dick. Simple and well-designed.
Book Umbrella
For a mere $7 you can enhance your beach reading experience with The BookShade from Neat-O Concepts. Simply attach to the spine and The BookShade eliminates eye strain and sun glare. It works for both hardbacks and paperbacks and can be rotated into any desired position.Is the Kindle version far behind?Available hereVia
Zoomii : A Virtual, Virtual "Bookstore"
When Amazon.com burst on to the scene as the world's first virtual bookstore who knew that it would eventually turn an entire industry upside down. Overnight, practically every book in print was made available at discounted prices to anyone with computer access. It wasn't long before the traditional independent new bookstore began to die.Now comes Zoomii "an online version of a real bookstore with Amazon's low prices, secure payment and fast shipping." Zoomii takes Amazon's entire catalog and turns it into a visual browsing trip. Essentially an Amazon affiliate, with all order processing done by Amazon, that utilizes Amazon's powerful...