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Friday Field Trip #2

A few bookish links from the wilds of the Internets that I came across this week:

Book trailer is among YouTube’s most viewed. (Found through Booksquare) Go Sherrilyn Kenyon! Acheron went on sale Monday.
Trust In Book Lovers, Not Reviewers, a rebuttal to Will Blogs Save Books article (linked to last week) that presents a reasoned view [...]

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Writerly Wednesday #1

Yeah, it’s another cutesy title, let’s not talk about it. Anyhoodle, since I’m about to start researching a couple new stories (novellas, novels, potential dead tree collections?), I am setting aside Wednesdays on Booklorn for writerly sorts of things, which readerly sorts of people may or may not be interested in. Mostly it’s to keep [...]

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Friday Field Trip #1

I tend to collect links to articles on writing, reading, publishing and related topics throughout the week. Instead of putting up a post every time I find one, I’m collecting them for Fridays for a field trip on the Internets to other sites. Hope you find something you missed in the list below, feel free [...]

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Why Some Used Books Cost a Fortune on Amazon

Every once in a while I’ll look for a book or CD only to find that it is no longer available, except as used. Sometimes the prices are reasonable on Amazon, but other times the used books seem ridiculously overpriced (>$100). I could never figure out what possessed sellers to pick these prices.
Today I came [...]

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Quirky book lovers (and haters)

Since I’m currently procrastinating about my own writing (I need something to workshop by 6 pm tonight), I thought I’d put up a short little post from my Google Reader reading:
John Meier, the American collecting first editions of award-winning Canadian literature: Ikea Billy bookshelves, 500 books, and the Cultural Olympiad.
Anne Carroll Moore, the founder of [...]

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