The Other Change of Hobbit in Berkeley has been closed down by the CaliforniaState Board of Equalization for nonpayment of sales taxes. They need to raise $9000 by tomorrow or the amount the government...it. Every little bit helps. The current need is urgent. If you can afford to help and if you want to see a small, locally-owned, independent bookstore continue in business, then go . Now .
... It was as if I'd never moved off the island. While I no longer live on the Island I often think fondly of trips to the library and to the gradually changing, it seems, storefronts of bookstores. By that I mean bookstores on the Island slowly change owners or go out of business entirely, as I did, back in 1992, while the library remains and has stood the test of time, a gateway to...
You know what's dangerous? Coupons for 20% off one book if your total purchase is $35 or more. So naturally I couldn't JUST buy The Graveyard Book , since it was only $19.50 before taxes. Had to find...fold outs with pictures from the movie. They were... shrieking! So I decided to ask for help. :p But yay, I has books! And I renewed my iRewards card, which made for a pricey excursion over all. :
As part of Barnes & Noble's new venture into furniture, they plan to dig up the remains of T.S. Eliot and offer them in a Lava Lamp to be marketed under the PoetryInMotion® Brand. Some Barnes & Noble fun I thought I'd post here... http://www.awesomemustache.com/awesome-mockery/barnes-noble-to-sell-ts-eliots-remains-in-new-home-strategy/
So I'm not sure when I posted this last, so I'll get on it again. For those of you who might be interested in personalized books, they are available from: The Bookstore 26 N. Idaho St., Dillon, Montana...to let me know. Then I'll go to the bookstore and sign and you'll get them soon after. The email for me is dpf AT dianapfrancis DOT com There's no sales tax in MT, by the way, so that's a positive
I get irrationally happy when people like Neil Gaiman mention Ann Arbor. (It makes sense; this is where the flagship Borders is - the one I'm trying not to buy from anymore for various reasons, real...involve pumpkin (bread, muffins, pie, ice cream probably, soup possibly). And I am at a loss for how to phrase most anything else or to what degree I should Do More Work Today, so off I go or something
As I write this entry, a bookshop owner in Brisbane has a copy of my novel The Heart Divided on the top of her reading stack, to read it with a view to stocking copies in her shop! This is scary and exciting all at once. *fingers crossed*
Today I was talking to my parents about the Antiquarian BookMart and my mom reminded me of something I'd forgotten to mention. The owner is one of the go to people in town for locating out of print books. When my mom was getting her library science degree she went to him several times for help in finding books and to learn more about the process of locating out of print books.
Yesterday we went to the Antiquarian BookMart and the Half Price Books on Broadway after eating at the W.D. Deli . We parked behind all three and were able to just walk to each in turn which was nice... You get the feeling that if you walked in and asked him for a good book on ____ subject he could hook you up. Highly recommended, if only for the joy of browsing in a real used bookstore.
...urging her membership to do their level best to get customers not to buy from Amazon, and in fact, to get authors to disable links to Amazon.com on their Web sites. Wow! Clearly she sees independentbookstores as being in a war for survival. And clearly they are. Olson's, a DC-area bookstore, just closed up shop. Whether the big chains like Borders and Barnes and Noble or the online marketers are...
