Noun. dust jacket - a paper jacket for a book; a jacket on which promotional information is usually printed. Also called book jacket, dust cover, dust wrapperMost books printed since the late nineteenth and early twentieth century have them. Unfortunately, there are many books that once had them that now don't. For the collector of these modern books the dust jacket represents the Holy Grail of value.One of the most noted examples is The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Published in 1925 by Charles Scribner's and Sons, the book is considered by many to be one of the great...
A Determined Reader and Book Patrol at 5
from the 2008 production Traces from the French Canadian theater company Les 7 doigts de la main.It has been a little over 5 years since I got a crazy idea to start blogging about books and their place in our world. The pace of change in the book universe has not slowed one bit since my first post and neither have the options for sharing and responding to the plethora of information about books that permeate the internet. While the pace of blogging has slowed somewhat recently it is not for lack of engagement nor interest - the availability of...
The Monobookist Invades New York
photo via CNN Doth One Book Make a Store? Everywhere you look in the recently opened Ed's Martian Book in New York City's West Village you'll see the same book. Whether you're in the New and Noteworthy section or the Sale section you will be exposed to one book and one book only, Kessler's recently released, Martian Summer: Robot Arms, Cowboy Spacemen, and My 90 Days With the Phoenix Mars Mission, an account of his time spend inside NASA's mission control.3000 or so copies of the book make up the entire inventory of the book shop.photo Guy Calaf for The New York...
Penny-seller rakes in millions: Thrift Recycling gets hefty investment
ERRATA: The original post mistakenly referred to Thrift Recycling Management as the parent company for Thrift Books. I have been informed that Thrift Books and Thrift Recycling Management are two separate and distinct companies. My apologies to the folks at Thrift Books for the error. The funding was secured by Thrift Recycling Management and the original story has been amended.*******************************************Thrift Recycling Management has announced that it has secured an $8.5 million investment led by venture capital firm QuestMark Partners. According to the press release "The funds will accelerate growth and help position TRM to be the dominant player in the recycled consumer goods space."They currently sell...
The Honesty Bookshop
How's this for business model:An outdoor locationAll books are £1 or lessHours of operation - 24/7 365 days a yearTotal staff - 0Security - noneMethod of payment - cash - deposited in lock boxes located throughout the shopWelcome to the The Honesty Bookshop one of the 30 or so bookshops that populate the book paradise known as Hay-on-Wye. It is part of Richard Booth's Bookshop which has, in addition to the Honesty Bookshop, two shops in Hay-on-Wye. And for those looking for a little Hay-on-Wye history, it was Richard Booth who opened the first bookshop there in 1961 and devised...