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Saturday, October 17 at 7pm, Brookline Booksmith
Mike Farrell – Of Mule and ManDedicated activist (and star of “M*A*S*H”) Mike Farrell has served on human rights and peace delegations around the world. His latest book is a literary memoir of his travels across the United States in a [...]
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An Evening With Postsecret’s Frank Warren
Please join us as welcome Frank Warren as he discusses the Postsecret phenomona and signs copies of his newest book, Postsecret: Confessions on Life, Death and God.
Time: 7 pm
Location: Boston University Law Auditorium
Charles London, Far from Zion
Award-winning journalist Charles London [...]
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Lucy Honig, Waiting for Rescue
Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at 7 pm, Porter Square Books
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The Department of Writing, Literature and Publishing at Emerson College invites you to an evening with Emerson Faculty.
Pablo Medina (The Cigar Roller; Points of Balance / Puntos de Apoyo) and Steve Yarbrough (The End of California; Prisoners of War) will read from their work at the Barnes & [...]
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What does it mean when a bookstore enters the digital age? This is a question Robert Gray has been looking at in his past few posts on Fresh Eyes Now and Shelf Awareness, book trade blogs. This is also a question I’ve been asking myself since I became editor of The Globe Corner Bookstore blog [...]
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After living in Boston for nearly three years, I finally got around to getting a library card this winter. Why did I wait so long? I was busy with school and work, yes, but mostly I was just lazy. Also, there’s my small problem of book hoarding. In my mind, borrowing books from the library [...]
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Are independent bookstores all but dead? Are giant chain box stores, e-readers, Amazon.com, and other online realtors all conspiring to choke the life out of our beloved family book shops?
For weeks now, my class on bookselling has been trying to answer this question…and usually comes up with a “yes.” So what is there for us [...]
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I just read here, and elsewhere, that Amazon is now excluding what it deems to be “adult” material from search results, and is removing these titles’ sales rankings. A quote from an Amazon employee:
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Recently in Desktop Publishing, we completed a project that involved redesigning the cover of a book of our choice. As I clicked around a few blogs dedicated to the subject of book cover design, I started thinking about how important a cover really is. It has say something about the book, literally or symbolically, but [...]
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Quick post again for me here. Back in January, we at Vernacular spent a week showcasing our favorite independent bookstores, so I thought it would be nice to share this story I came across from The Boston Globe: Unchained Success: Independent bookstores holding up vs. big rivals. I recycled this snowy picture of the Brookline [...]
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