by | Dec 29, 2008 | Literary News
from the Washington Post Twice-Sold Tales Used-Book Business Gets a Brisk, if Fragile, New Life Via Internet By Bob Thompson Washington Post Staff Writer, Monday, December 29, 2008 “That’s about a million books on those shelves,” Chuck Roberts says...
by | Dec 26, 2008 | Literary News
from Art Market Monitor People of the Book The Delmonico Collection of Important Judaica was estimated at $4.1 to $5.5 million and featured a 15th Century illuminated Hebrew Bible and forty separate lots–including eleven printed on blue paper–of the Babylonian Talmud...
by | Dec 25, 2008 | Literary News
from the Wall Street Journal Prophet Sharing: The Good Book Is the Best Seller The Bible, Long a Commercial Hit, Gets Repackaged for Market Niches from the Homespun to the Fashion Forward By STEPHANIE SIMON Mobile, Ala. Upstairs in the Mobile Museum of Art,...
by | Dec 18, 2008 | Literary News
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by | Dec 16, 2008 | Literary News
from The Telegraph UK Men ‘lie about books they have read to impress on dates’ Men are twice as likely as women to lie about what books they have read to try impress on a first date, new research has revealed. By Caroline Gammell Last Updated: 7:16PM GMT...
by | Dec 16, 2008 | Literary News
Holiday Message from Roy Blount Jr.: Buy Books From Your Local Bookstore, Now December 11, 2008. I’ve been talking to booksellers lately who report that times are hard. And local booksellers aren’t known for vast reserves of capital, so a serious dip in...
