Big Bad Book Blog Links 4-20-2006
By“Why can’t I make money with a POD Publisher? I thought it was appropriate that I write the answer to this on April 1 because this industry represents one of the largest April fool’s joke on the Internet. As potentially successful as the POD publisher’s salesperson or website makes it appear, the numbers just don’t add up.”
Book Sense bestseller list for April 20th 2005. Results are from independent bookstore sales.
“If you had to put all your money on one living poet whose work will be read in a hundred years, Richard Wilbur would be a good bet.”
And the winners are… Recognizing those titles independent booksellers most enjoyed hand selling during the past year.
“A weblog community in the service of book design, books, art, photography and design.”
“Farrar, Straus and Giroux have ventured into waters pretty much uncharted by a big commercial publisher, putting the entire text of one of their latest titles online in a form designed to be read inside a browser…now available to readers serially via blog, RSS or email: two installments per day and once per day on weekends.”
“We’ll sit on a good sofa over a great armchair any day, but we’d definitely make an exception for the Bibliochaise, literally an armchair library for those who like to be ‘immersed in deep reading.’” All it needs is a cooler for food and beverages.
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