Saw this on Shelf-Awareness.com and found it to be interesting…
“Cool Idea of the Day: Bookstore’s Gasoline Giveaway
Beginning in August, Merritt Bookstore, which has locations in Millbrook and Red Hook, N.Y., will hold monthly drawings to give away $50 gift certificates for gasoline at local gas stations, one certificate for each store. Customers will be entered […]
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I’ve written several times about Maran Illustrated and their online eBooks including the following posts. I started with…Maran Illustrated Yoga eBook available online for FREE!. I then added updates:
Maran Graphics Family Gives Away the Store (or at least the books)
Maran Illustrated Student Library is Now Online
More Maran eBooks available online for […]
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John Mutter, editor-in-chief, of the Shelf-Awareness newsletter announced their 3rd anniversary via the newsletter. If you aren’t familiar with the newsletter these highlights will help you become more familiar. You may sign up for the FREE newsletter and see back issues at Shelf-Awareness.com
“Yesterday marked the third anniversary of our first issue. […]
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UNIVERSITY PRESSES START TO SELL VIA KINDLE
An Inside Higher Ed email delivered on June 24, 2008 led me to this interesting article about university presses selling books as Amazon’s Kindle eBooks.
Just months after Amazon’s Kindle , a portable eBook reader launched , academic
publishing houses are starting to sell books via this method. http://insidehighered.com/news/2008/06/24/kindle
“By the […]
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Shelf-Awareness.com has an interesting article, Face Outs Push Up Sales at Borders ‘New Concept’ Store, in its March 6th newsletter. When I was in Christian retail I often encouraged our staff to face out as much as possible. I often described it as being like comparable to the difference in a ‘billboard’ and a […]
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On a couple occasions I’ve run across a book that was in high demand due to ’supply and demand’. This usually happens when the book goes ‘out-of-print’. The first time I found one was when I ran into a thrift store and discovered a very nice, thick book by former San Francisco Giant […]
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New & Used Textbooks @ Amazon.com
AbeBooks: New & Used Books, Textbooks, Rare & Out of Print Books
College Textbooks.com allows you to look up the book and see price comparisons.
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There are lots of places that you can donate your old books to OR sell your books to.
First of all, let’s look at donating them. Remember that in many cases you can take the donation out on your taxes. Be sure to keep good records of the donation. Here are a few of my […]
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Chris Anderson, the author of The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More, is quoted on Amazon as saying,
“The Long Tail took form over nearly two years as an “open-source research project” on my blog at www.longtail.com . This experiment in book development, where I shared data and ideas in […]
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Abebooks Glossary - Includes Book Sizes, Book Condition Terms, and Common Abbreviations related to books.
Independent Online Bookseller’s Association Book Terminology
Powell’s Books - Includes Binding, Class, Condition, Editions, Volumes and Autographed Copies.
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