November 27, 2012

Stores raved about the festive atmosphere engendered by the shop-small ethos… Read more »

News and interviews from the wild, wild world of independent bookselling.

Otto's---one of the country's oldest bookstores---is up for sale — Chad Felix
Barnes & Noble takes penultimate step to exiting Queens — Liam O'Brien
Penguin Random House UK announces possible warehouse layoffs due to ebooks — Liam O'Brien
In the city that spends the most on books, it's only indies now — Julia Irion Martins

The problem with lifting from press releases

Ariel Bogle

Early Monday, a fake press release was released on PRWeb, causing many websites, including The Associated Press, to run an incorrect article about Google making a $400 million acquisition of… Read more »

The seamy underbelly of British lexicography

Ellie Robins

One harmless drudge at the Oxford English Dictionary turns out not to have been so harmless. Robert Burchfield, editor of the OED between 1972 and 1986, has always been seen as a… Read more »

Your favorite authors are going to be forgotten

Dustin Kurtz

On the Paleofuture blog of Smithsonian Magazine Matt Novak points us to an interesting list that appeared in a 1936 edition of The Colophon. The Colophon was a “Quarterly for Bookmen” that… Read more »

Thanksgiving leftovers: A reading guide

Kevin Murphy

Not sure if it’s a tryptophan hangover, but this whole holiday thing has got me feeling a little behind, unable to catch up. And it seems there’s no shortage of… Read more »

Melville House Books

Small Business Saturday supports booksellers across the country

Nick Davies