The headline reads: Outfoxing the digital revolution.The story in The Telegraph profiles Slightly Foxed, a second-hand bookshop, publisher of a popular beautifully produced reader's quarterly and publishers of Slightly Foxed Editions."Slightly Foxed have stepped aside from the ebook stampede to publish beautifully bound hardbacks that recall a bygone age – and sell like hot cakes," and too boot they only publish memoirs that are out of print but not out of copyright, and all include new prefaces that are reproduced in the quarterly magazine.Each clothbound pocket hardback includes colored endpapers, headband, tailband and a silk ribbon marker. Each is published...
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...
A Loving Window Display
“Bookshops are romantic places, but we’ve never had a request like this before." said Jessica Graham, manager of Primrose Hill Books.The window of Primrose Hill Books became the centerpiece of a marriage proposal when 26 year old Oliver Harkness spelled out his wish to take the hand of his girlfriend Priyanka Chaudhuri in marriage.Minutes after setting up the window display Oliver and Priyanka strolled past the window and he popped the question. She said yes and the crowd of onlookers that had gathered let out a cheer. Story at the Camden New Journal, Love story – Romantic Oliver Harkness' novel...
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...