Booksellers Blog

I’m still trying to condense my thoughts about BEA into a manageable post. However, I do want to highlight one of the best sessions at BEA. It was also the only BEA-organized (as opposed to ABA-organized) session that was targeted specifically to Independent Booksellers. In this video, Gary Vaynerchuk is talking to YOU. It is [...]

I won’t take any of your time editorializing, because I really want you to read, and digest, Mike Shatzkin’s blog post, Digital change: what’s an independent bookseller to do? So please, just go read it. I’m sure he’d love your comments, and I will follow you over there to see what you have to say.

Joe Wikert is General Manager/Publisher at O’Reilly Media Group. Joe’s blog, Publishing 2020, is on my list of “mandatory reading.” Joe writes about the future of books and publishing, and because O’Reilly deals mainly in technical books, his take is often different than that of traditional trade publishers. In a recent post titled “Revenge of [...]

I haven’t yet gotten a copy of Ted Striphas‘ new book, THE LATE AGE OF PRINT (978-0-231-14814-6, Columbia University Press), though I would very much like to read it.  Striphas argues that printed material (books, magazines) are both at once dying and thriving. Scott Esposito at the always-excellent blog The Quarterly Conversation has an intriguing [...]