A as in Dante
One sad touch that makes a visit to a Barnes and Noble a little sadder still: in the small poetry section, Dante appears under A , as in Alighieri .
Robert Walser: “nothing less than ghastly”
From The Tanners. Simon Tanner leaves the bookstore business.
Leaving empty-handed
It’s sad when leaving a bookstore empty-handed becomes routine.
Horizon Bookstore bookmark
The yellowing just below the top and down the edge is the work of paper eating paper. There is no permanence.
Gotham Book Mart bookmark
The art is no doubt the work of Edward Gorey.
Strand bookmark
From the Strand Book Store, GRamercy 3-1452.
Booksmith bookmark
I like pulling down a book from a shelf and finding an old bookmark.
Mystery Pier on Off-Ramp
Radio story on the LA bookstore.
Bob Conant on bookselling
”People realize if they want books to continue, they have to support bookstores, and they have to support publishers.”
Manhattan is losing bookstores
The New York Times reports on the dwindling number of bookstores in Manhattan
Best wishes to Jack Cella
Retiring after forty-three years as the general manager of the Seminary Co-op Bookstore.
A bookstore opening and closing
J. L. Sathre’s book comes to an end.
More trouble for Barnes & Noble
From the New York Times.
Brookline Booksmith blog
“I am happy to discover that one of my favorite bookstores, Brookline Booksmith, has a blog: brookline blogsmith.”
Eighth Street Bookshop
The Eighth Street Bookshop, run by brothers Eli and Ted Wilentz, is one of the now-defunct businesses that make an appearance in Maeve Brennan’s The Long-Winded Lady.
“People are getting rid of bookshelves”
J.L. Sathre on unning a bookstore.
Barnes & Noble v. Amazon (2)
The New York Times reports that Barnes & Noble bookstores will not stock Amazon-published books.
Barnes & Noble v. Amazon
“Using the bookstore to sell e-books makes it unnecessary to go to the bookstore, except to use it as a library or life-sized catalogue, or to have coffee.”
Henry, an anachronism
Back-date magazines in the comics.
Whither Barnes & Noble?
“Bookstore survival-strategy seems to be premised on everything but books.”
Overheard
“I hate books that you have to read from cover to cover.”
Borders to close
“For months now, the online welcome message from my nearby Borders has seemed tinged with pathos.”
A secret location on the Upper East Side
A three-minute film by Andrew David Watson about a used-book store in a Manhattan apartment.
The Pale King and commerce
The publication date for The Pale King is April 15, but the book is already on sale online and in some bookstores.
A Borders executive on Borders
Six reasons for Borders’ bankruptcy
Borders files for bankruptcy
The Wall Street Journal reports that Borders Group Inc. has filed for bankruptcy.
Borders and bankruptcy
“It’s sad: everything the company has done to bring in more money seems to give the dedicated reader less reason to feel good about going to Borders.”
The Old Trading Post, Lisbon, New Hampshire
Tracking down a bookstore from a postcard in a library book
Brookline Booksmith
Independent bookstore, just outside Boston, fate up in the air
Stealing books
Margo Rabb essay on bookstealing