The fascination folk of all ages have with the silver screen continues unabated, regardless of the impact of television. A night at the movies remains even now one of the cheapest and most popular forms of entertainment. The movie has state of the art sound, images which are larger than life both literally and metaphorically, and actors and actresses known and loved the world over.
For the book collector, movies have special significance and present a wide choice of subjects. There are countless books in circulation, many of them most attractively presented and bound, with many full colour plates, on every type of film genre imaginable. Books about cowboy movies, for example, immediately call to mind many famous characters, such as “The Duke” (John Wayne), Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd), Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, Gaby Hayes and many, many others. A collection might be centred on one or more of these stars, or on one or more well known films of the genre, such as “Stagecoach” or “High Noon”, or even where the movies were made, bearing in mind not only Hollywood but also “Spaghetti Westerns” and the burgeoning Indian movie industry. Britain and Australia have also been responsible for some memorable movvies.
Then there is the comedy genre. For me, the Carry On movies were perhaps among the best of their generation. A movie like “Carry On Up The Khyber” lives on vividly in my mind, and I am sure somewhere there is a marvellous book about it.
James Bond started life in one of the books by Ian Fleming – Casino Royale. Fleming would be amazed at the popularity of his hero among all age groups were he still alive. Since that was published in 1953, it has been adapted for movies no less than three times, and Fleming wrote another eleven books around his hero, most if not all of which have been turned into movies. Furthermore, numerous other authors, such as John Gardiner, have taken Fleming’s hero and put him through lots of other hoops in many different books. Perhaps it is the combination of fast cars, fast action, and above all fast women. Yet another very collectable subject is Alfred Hitchcock movies. Psycho comes to mind straightaway, and there are many others. A collection of books around Alfred Hitchcock movies would be fascinating.
The spy/action thriller movie never loses it’s appeal, and there must be literally thousands of collectable books around this topic.
Then again, another approach to collecting books about movies would be to collect biographies of movie stars. There are many available, all with beautiful picture portraits.
I hope this short article has given some insight into the many ways in which a collection of books can be built up around the general topic of movies and movie history. Best of all is the fact that most of such titles are still readily available, in good condition and at reasonable prices.
These days, I think it is safe to say that in general children of all ages read far less than their predecessors, due to
Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
influences such as television, computer games, mobile phones, and so on. I do not say that these modern inventions are necessarily bad for children, but it is a pity that many of the famous children’s books of the past are so neglected. Roald Dahl, the well known children’s author, would have agreed. His poem “Television” makes this very point.
I keep a small bookshop in South Africa, and I have noticed that books such as Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Black Beauty, the William books by Richmal Crompton, Alice in Wonderland, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables and many, many others never move from the shelves these days. One exception may be books by Enid Blyton, prices of which have soared recently.
Children’s books constitute a very wide field for the collector, a field which has burgeoned since the first books for children were published around the turn of seventeenth century in England. These included some titles which are as well known today as they were then, including The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, Gulliver’s Travels, by Jonathan Swift, The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan, and of course Aesop’s Fables. John Newbery published his first children’s book in 1744, and subsequently published many of the most important ones. These early children’s books are fragile and scarce, resulting in them being difficult to find and very expensive for the average collector. However, there are many late Victorian and early Edwardian editions around, often with very decorative covers, particularly late Victorian and early Edwardian editions, at far more reasonable prices.
The 1820′s saw a surge of interest in fairy tales, with the popularization of Hans Christian Andersen and the translation of the tales of the Brothers Grimm. During the mid nineteenth century, the adventure story came into its own, with the publication of Captain Marryat’s Masterman Ready. He was soon followed in this genre by a number of well known authors, such as R M Ballantyne, G A Henty, and Charles Kingsley. Later appeared Robert Louis Stevenson, whose books “Treasure Island” and “Kidnapped” have become true classics.
Peter Rabbit, the creation of Beatrix Potter, first made his appearance in 1893, and was followed by Toad of Toad Hall (Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Graham) in 1908 and Winnie the Pooh (A A Milne) in 1924.
Today, children’s books have become a worldwide publishing phenomenon, with Harry Potter becoming an all time superstar.
Some of the early editions of children’s books can be very valuable – for example, a copy of the original Alice in Wonderland first edition would be worth between £60 and £100 000. Only 25 copies are known, as the entire edition was withdrawn by the author, Lewis Carroll (real name Charles Lutwidge Dodgson).
Despite this, there exists today a plethora of children’s books of all periods available for the collector at reasonable prices.
Railways have always exerted a powerful influence over small and not-so-small boys,
Cover of Night Mail
right from their days of wanting to
become an steam engine driver. I wonder whether kids still dream of this – driving an electric or diesel engine cannot, I am sure, begin to compete with the earthy, dirty, smelly romance of driving a steam engine. It’s a fascination that stays with some people all their lives. I once knew a senior managing director whose passion in his spare time was his enormous model railway layout in his attic. His model engines were exclusively of the steam engine. His wife frequently complained of being a railway widow.
In my case, this interest extends to books about railways, of which I cannot get enough in my bookshop. They fly off the shelves almost as they arrive. I love the big, glossy illustrated ones, with enthralling pictures of the midnight mail thundering through the night. Try reading W H Auden’s The Night Mail to capture some of the magic. You can hear the wheels clacking over the rails, the shriek of the whistle, and the labouring of the engine up steep inclines.
There are many literary references to the railways, of course, from the sixty-five year old Thomas the Tank Engine to Skimbleshanks the Railway Cat, and it is this area of books somehow associated with railways which is of prime interest to me. Books like The Railway Children, for instance, or Murder on the Orient Express. How beautifully Agatha Christie combined the atmosphere of luxury and wealth with the vivid descriptions of the train, and with the growing sense of menace.
There are naturally many other areas associated with railways which are of interest to the enthusiast. Dr Beeching’s famous pruning of the British Railways in the 1960′s left many railway lines and branch stations redundant, and while some of these have been taken over by hobbyists and continue to operate as tourist attractions, many have been put to a myriad of other uses. This could form the basis of an interesting collection. Then there are the multitude of non-fiction books about railway history, including some which are extremely rare and command high prices – if you are lucky enough to find them. Pictures of the steam engine abound, as do photographs.
As well as Britain and Europe, there are long established railways in many parts of the world, including particularly India and North and South America. Many of these have fascinating stories to tell of the difficulties overcome in their construction, such as the famous man-eating lions of East Africa.
On April 26th the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards will be thrown open for submissions—this year categories include Fiction, Non Fiction, Drama, Poetry, Young Adult, Unpublished Manuscript and Indigenous Writing. That just about covers … Blue is set in the fictional coastal surf town of Bolton and follows the story of three teenagers who skip school to check out the grisly corpse of a blue, tentacled alien immigrant who has come a cropper on the railway lines. In his much-lauded …
He has piles of magazines everywhere and there are trains taking over the house. Just because I don’t put my stuff in piles like he does he moans at me for being untidy. Mum moans at him about his magazines sometimes and if she is really …
… offering up perspectives on the diseases stretching back to the nineteenth century: the locals give different reasons for a decline in ague during their lifetimes, ranging from the cutting down of elm trees to the coming of the railways.
On the railways and buses and in shops and amongst workers and clerks and even agricultural labourers. And I suppose worse in mines and factories. Ill will. But here it’s more than that. … The character Enoch Arden appears not only in this Christie novel, but also in the short story “While the Light Lasts” and in GIANT’S BREAD, the first Christie’s six novels written under the pseudonym of Mary Westmacott. I think the plot itself caused Christie a few problems. Hercule Poirot is called in …
The lady from Dubuque, who calls herself Elizabeth, purports to be Jo’s mother, here to be with her daughter in her final hours, but this is transparently a fiction. Elizabeth is Death the comforter. Oscar, as played by Peter Francis James, …. Transforming a railway path high above street level into a carefully landscaped and cultivated setting for plants and a slightly winding walkway has to have been an inspired feat. On the day we were there, ambling crowds made it a bit congested, but …
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Why isn’t Poetry more popular ?
Spoken poetry in particular.
As a bookseller, I find that secondhand poetry volumes are very slow to sell. Yes, occasionally a poetry enthusiast will call into our shop and buy five or six at a time, but customers like these are few and far between. Poetry, read aloud as spoken poetry, can be extremely entertaining.
In the small village in the Karoo, South Africa, where we have our bricks-and-mortar shop, my wife and I frequently (say, once a year) stage evenings of poetry and music at our local church hall. I will read perhaps 50% of the programme, and we invite lots of other locals to read the rest. The spoken poetry is accompanied by music and visuals, which deepen the effect and add considerably to the interest. A meal is part of the programme, as are performances by local singers and a local orchestra. These events are eagerly awaited in the village, and are usually sold out. The evenings are always held as fundraisers for a local charity. Last time it was the village old age home.
One of the major benefits of these evenings of spoken poetry is that in our now multi-racial society there still exist deep social divisions between race groups, although thankfully this is one the wane, and these evenings are among the few opportunities that exist for people of different social backgrounds to enjoy an evening in each other’s company. We always ensure that speakers are drawn from our white, coloured and black residents, and as a result we are supported by all population groups.
About Spoken Verse: From Poet’s Musings: For about two years, a person with the alias Tom O’Bedlam has been reading poetry, animating the readings with images–often of the text itself–and uploading the audio/video to Youtube.
Anna Robinson, the author of Songs from the Flats and The Finders of London and editor of Long Poem Magazine, is visiting Nottingham on Wednesday 9 May, and will be reading downstairs at Lee Rosy’s Tea from 7pm that evening with Georgina Lock, Wayne Bu … … I first saw Anna reading alongside Jo Roach at the Torriano Meeting House in London in 2007, and was so impressed I promptly invited them both up to Sheffield for Spoken Word Antics. Her first collection weaves an …
Poetry is honored every day at the Grolier Poetry Book Shop in Harvard Square, the oldest continuous poetry book shop in the United States. We stock over 15000 volumes and spoken word CD’s. Special orders are welcome. Come and visit …
He found my little poems revolutionary and blasphemous and end-time-ish and some of them were spoken from the mouth of God (all things he meant as negative) and he had to sign off now to comfort his daughter, who had been shaken up …
I first came across W S Merwin’s poetry in Earth Shattering an anthology of environmental poetry edited by Neil Astley, which I reviewed here.… Merwin’s soft spoken insights mourn a world where too much loss is being taken for granted.
“Poetry or novels take much longer to complete but are essentially an improvisation with words that took months or years to complete. Spoken word is probably the closest to an improvising jazz musician, where the artist is putting phrases …
[ Soaking Wet ] ~ Leonardo Rosado’s main musical focus explores the collision between sound, poetry and everyday life by using automatic expressions what he likes to call – word/soundscapes. The construction of his music pieces expose daily life happenings that are individual and at the same time …. Genre – Experimental, Jazz [ With Spoken and Singing Lyrics / EXCELLENT ]. Tracklist. 1. Monkey 02:18 2. How the Ostrich became a Girl and her Bicycle 04:12 3. Dolphin 05:00 …
Raindrops on the rearview stood stalwart. Automotive blurs flew past without definition and somewhere in the middle, time froze. She unclasped sweaty palms from the wheel unbuckled and exhaled, she swore she saw flames in the opposite …
Welcome to book blogs! I hope you enjoy the site and all the wonderful people here! I have a book review blog that is beneficial to readers and authors alike! (At least I like to think so) haha. I have the normal book reviews, author interviews,…” …
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As book bloggers, we tend to post a lot of reviews. And, I don’t know about … Then, in your actual post, all you have to do is add in [rating:4] (or however many stars you are awarding to the book). It then appears like this: ★ ☆ .
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Weekly Round-Up: Open Book Ontario. Submitted … An update of the interviews and features on Open Book: Ontario this week. … View more items filed under “Book Blogs, Websites & Magazines” in our Open Book Archives.
Happy Friday, everyone! It’s been a while since I’ve joined Jennifer in 7 Quick Takes; it seems like every week I intend on writing a post with quick updates and joining in, and the next thing I know it’s Thursday and I’m out of …
I’ve been blogging for a while. I started this particular blog back in January 2004. Somewhere along the way, I began to blog about the books I read and how I felt about them. There was a time there that I stepped away from blogging altogether …
I finished reading a book called Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes. It was a good read. It was about this 16 year-old named Eric and his best friend, Sarah Byrns. Sarah had been burned when she was little so now her face is really …
The blog has been hoping with guest posts and this past weekend the 18 and Over Book Blogger Giveaway took place and was a smash hit! Just with my portion there were well over 200 entries for the 16 prizes being handed …
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Welcome to the Pure tour here at Books Over Boys! Today my blog is one of the many stops for the Pure tour hosted by the fabulous Valerie from Stuck In Books! I give her huge props for putting together this amazing tour with …
Military History is a large and exciting field for collectors, especially those of us who never really grew out of the toy
A small English Civil War-era cannon (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
soldier phase of childhood. Not only does it encompass biographies and autobiographies of famous generals, but also those of the ordinary soldier, including the poetry some of them wrote. There are stories of huge historical set piece battles as well as stories of skirmishes and guerilla hit and run tactics – on land, at sea, or in the air. Indeed, for soldier, you may read sailor or airman. As a former soldier myself (when I was very much younger!), I have a particular interest in military history. Fighting is a weary, dirty business, and usually in conditions of considerable discomfort, so I now take pleasure in reading about Military History from the comfort of my own home or bookshop.
Many a former soldier has retained an interest in Military History for these reasons. I must, though, be honest and say that it was one of the subjects during my training at Sandhurst where I could fall sound asleep with my eyes open, giving myself away by occasionally nodding violently.
The subject has worldwide appeal, and it is quite possible to specialize in a narrower field, such as collecting books on the American Civil War, or on Napoleon, say, or on the development of the atomic bomb or on the IRA and its history.
The net is a huge source of information on Military History, and those interested will enjoy reading the following.
Since I purged my military section, there are now a bunch of older military history books on the free shelves and cart. Feel free to come in and check out the free stuff. Feel free to come in and buy a book, or two, or a hundred.
YOU CAN PRINT THIS DOCUMENT FREE OF COST BASED ON 30 YEARS OF INTENSE STUDY OF MILITARY HISTORY.STARTING FROM THE DRAB LIBRARIES OF MID 1970S INTO THE DESERTS WHERE MILITARY …
This is a fine example of how military-history books should be written. Guy Dempsey has produced a factual, balanced account of Albuera that is written in engaging and interesting prose. The introduction not only sets the …
Book review: Afghanistan: A Military History from Alexander the Great to the Fall of the Taliban, by Stephen Tanner, 328 pages. The book begins its telling of the history of Afghanistan, starting from 334 BC forward, with the …
[FULL DISCLOSURE: I received my copy of this book free from the author. I was not paid for this review and the opinion expressed is purely my own]. Kirov by John Shettler is the Philadelphia Experiment in reverse. It is the …
Okay, the first person to correctly answer the question recieves a free book from this month’s Osprey offerings. Which Osprey book has the longest subtitle? Post your answers in the comments section. Related Articles …
Hi Everyone,. For those who may not already know, Regimental Books is involved with Anzacs Online, a newly developed Australian Military History Online Museum dedicated to commemorating the service of the approximate …
While the book may not be for everyone, any military enthusiast will enjoy the book. Any tanker or former tank crewmember will enjoy the book. I believe it would be a worthwhile addition to any military history library as well as …
An exciting new militia battalion unit history is now out and available from Regimental Books. Toowoomba’s military historian Bob Doneley has written an exciting new title on the 25th Battalion (Darling Downs Regiment).
“I thought it should be a novel because fiction is able to take care of the complexities of conflict, the shades of grey that history does not take into account.” Writing the book proved to be an unexpectedly painful process.
If you’re looking for a good overview and an understanding of what the Italian soldiers experienced then you’ll enjoy the book. I give it four stars. It is a must addition to any military historian’s library. It is a good first volume to fill …
Our Price: $28.00 + FREE domestic shipping = $28.00 CAD $28.00 + international shipping = $38.00 CAD Guidebooks usually either take you to the historical location and show you around but rarely do they offer the …
New Military History Book by Ian Hughes: Belisarius-The Last Roman General. Ian Hughes has produced an excellent military history text entitled: Belisarius: The … This book is a military history of the campaigns of Belisarius.
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The most valuable part of the book is summary of some of the military operations in Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) although author could have provided more details in view of her access to several senior officers …
Here we offer a selection of our favorite books on military history. Some are the books we have used as sources for this site, some are good introductions to their subjects and others are interesting oddities.
Here we offer a selection of our favorite books on military history. Some are the books we have used as sources for this site, some are good introductions to their subjects and others are interesting oddities.
Book Review: Marshal Vauban and the Defence of Louis XIV’s France, by James Falkner. By HistoryNet Staff. Originally published by Military History magazine. Published Online: March 01, 2012 …
The Victorian novel has a perennial fascination for many book collectors.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
My guess is that there are several reasons why:
many people have this rosy, distorted view of Victorian days – the “good old days” – despite the fact that it was an age of tremendous suffering for millions of folk. Collecting novels of those days can produce pleasantly nostalgic effects.
many of the greatest novelists in the English language were writing in or shortly before or shortly after Victorian times: Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, Mrs Gaskell, Sir Walter Scott (perhaps the earliest of the great romantic novelists), the Brontë sisters, George Eliot, Edgar Alan Poe, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Wilkie Collins and many, many others giving a wide choice for collecting by author and also by genre.
there was a large output of work – perhaps 40 000 works of prose fiction in the last two decades of the 19th century, so volumes in good condition are still reasonably readily available – ideal for collecting.
book-binding was still considered an art, whether mechanised or not, and many surviving Victorian volumes are beautifully decorated – collecting these can add much to the visual attraction of a room.
Victorian illustrators were in their hey day – Phiz, Edward Lear, Aubrey Beardsley and many others adorned novels with magnificent drawings, engravings and paintings.
prices have not yet soared through the roof, and many Victorian volumes in excellent condition can still be obtained at reasonable prices.
The web has huge numbers of blogs on both book collecting and on Victorian novels, but here are a selection of references which should be of interest:
Distance is a pretty good approach to the Victorian novel, considering that 40000+ books of prose fiction were published in the last two-thirds of the nineteenth century. No one can read them all. But perhaps we can learn how …
“Sims, editor with this brilliant collection, gathers stories from the undead written during what he loosely terms the Victorian era…. the bloodsuckers presented here are predators who might be turned away only by Christian symbols, garlic, and … True Blood, even before Buffy and Anne Rice and Bela Lugosi, vampires haunted the nineteenth century, when brilliant writers everywhere indulged their bloodthirsty imaginations, culminating in Bram Stoker’s legendary 1897 novel, Dracula.
A new four-volume collection of Victorian Social Activists’ Novels edited by Oliver Lovesay and published by Pickering Chatto will help critics do just that, while at the same time expanding the canon of activist fiction in the …
I wrote my undergraduate thesis on Victorian pornographic novels. Now this might come as a surprise, but 19th century pornographic novels aren’t as well-studied an area as you’d expect, and were even less so [some ...
The Victorian period provides us modern readers with many discussions over class, art, and gender, and we are lucky enough to read the ideas and philosophies of the Victorian writers. A quite popular and well known novel...
With the Victorian novels, this would take several forms–covers (or casings) sold to collect all of the installments together, the actual 3 volume sets, and later, with more popular works, one-volume editions, often oversized or ...
Book Collecting; Book Specialties; Book. Trade paperback. Rebel Graphics :: Working_class_literature The Oxford Book of Work Reference and. Title: Working Fictions: A Genealogy of the Victorian Novel (Post-Contemporary ...
It seems only fitting that I should kick start my Victorian immersion (sounds a bit like a spa treatment!) with Peter Ackroyd's recently published Wilkie Collins, the biography of the Victorian novelists, play write and short story ...
"The Dead Witness" concludes at the end of the Victorian era in 1901 but the popularity of detective fiction lives on. PBS' "Masterpiece Mystery!" series starts the second season of its modern update to Sherlock Holmes, ...
This site is designed by a collection of British Literature students, faculty, and readers. We hope to inspire your imagination, spur ...Victorian Period: Vanity Fair & Henry Mayhew Comparative Analysis. Posted on March 25, 2012 by stephenbell ...
Hierarchy in the Library: Egalitarian Dynamics in Victorian Novels. John A. Johnson, Department of Psychology, Pennsylvania State University, DuBois, PA, USA. Email: j5j@psu.edu (Corresponding author). Joseph Carroll, Department of ...
Considered the first great novelist of modern London in Victorian times, the exhibition traces the author's influences and features everything from paintings to photographs and costumes. More importantly, rare manuscripts of some of the author's most famous works ... “In Victorian Britain, people would come to your door and buy all the dust and dirt you had collected in your house,” Werner said. “There was quite a lot of money in rubbish.” By giving visitors a chance to ...
“I collect Victorian novels!” (The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, Deanna Raybourn's Lady Julia Grey series, Tasha Alexander's Lady Emily Ashton series, Elizabeth Peters Amelia Peabody series, Leanna Hieber's Guards ...
Front Free Endpaper. An eclectic mix of book collecting and dealing, gay life, gay sex, science fiction and victorian photographs ... I am fond of telling people that two of anything is a pair, three is a collection... It appears I now ...
William Thackeray's novel Vanity Fair focuses heavily on gender roles in society, and how those perceived gender roles play a part in the character's lives he. ... This site is designed by a collection of British Literature students, faculty, and readers. We hope to inspire your imagination, spur your curiosity, and lead you to new discoveries. ... Skip to secondary content. Welcome! Critical Introductions · Romantic Contexts · Victorian Contexts & Texts · Novel Endings ...
CFP: Edited Collection: Victorian Medicine and Pop... Reminder: UpStage: A .... Richard Marsh is best-known for his 1897 novel The Beetle, a gothic bestseller at the time more popular than Dracula. Indeed Marsh was a ...
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The enormous growth in unit sales of ebooks, and the retreat in sales of printed books over the last couple of years invites speculation as to the future. Broadly, the debate is economics + ecology versus ease of use + habit + cosmetics.
There is no doubt in my mind that impecunious students are likely, in future, to demand much or all of their prescribed textbooks to be available at little or no cost online, and their more senior academic colleagues will prefer the freedom, lack of cost and publicity which comes with online publications as opposed to printed versions. However, in other fields it is significant that paperback books have certainly not replaced hard covers: they remain subsidiary. I think the same thing will happen to ebooks , but see what others say:
Naturally, not all arguments against the prioritisation of e-books are sentimental – those economically involved in printing and publishing industries are understandably concerned about what the future holds. As we alter books and the ways in which we read them, we also alter all book-based …V-machine.org, for example, has proven to serve as a fore-runner for a lot of online text projects. Another extremely valuable resource, that has proved massively popular with …
Neil, I never said anything about the price of print vs. ebooks. This post is all about how much a retailer should be able to discount off the publisher’s list price. So I’m comparing ebook prices to ebook prices, not ebook to print …
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Print v eBooks. How can we work with writers and publishers so that books that are only available as downloads to Kindle owners are also available in book form. We need to compete on price and be proactive. I have few …
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With the rising popularity of e-books, do paperbacks stand a chance? People are …E-book V/s The Paperback: What Would You Prefer? … But in this day and age, a book could mean a print book or an e-book. With the rising …
Ownership vs. access – look for DRM free materials when you can. “Sometimes you’re buying spam.” Caveat emptor – review before buying. “Good luck grabbing our sales and freebies.” …Ebooks used to be cheaper than print to reflect the low overhead in production, but are now running about the same as a print book as publishers try to bolster confidence in content. “Better watch your data bill.” Enhanced e-books can especially have an impact on your data usage.
Digital Rights Showdown: HarperCollins v. ….Ebooks may be outselling paper on Amazon, but Amazon is just one source of book sales, and print sales still beat e-sales by an enormous margin overall. Despite the exciting …
Yes, ebook reader’s are cool. I borrow my husband’s Kindle when I travel. It’s a nifty device, which always impresses others on airplanes. Though it’s handy in many situations, it still doesn’t beat a plain old paper and ink book.
Ebooks aren’t a better value, ebooks aren’t more attractive nor are they a threat to the print version of any immersive reading book. This isn’t the same as paperback versions vs hardcover – where the platform and …
Technology, something that has changed the way we live over the past few years. Life has eased a lot thanks to some great minds who keep inventing something for our benefit. Since Facebook arrived, the way we socialize …
An e-book is nothing more but engraved information and the single place where you can find it after you’ve done reading it is only amongst your memories. ebooks vs printed books Paper Books versus e Books: What Is Your …
Since I can read ebooks on my laptop or PDA phone, does anyone have any opinion on which are environmentally friendlier, ebooks or print books? Which should I have as my “default setting”? Should I only buy ebooks if I …
But who would have predicted the actual creation and implementation of an eBook would be the easy part? Pricing a book used to be relatively easy. Take all the parts of the book like printing costs, marketing expenses, …
Agency pricing (aka Retail Price Maintenance) was designed to slow the adoption of ebooks, bolster print sales, and move marketshare away from Amazon. It was not designed to increase competitiveness in …. Anne V Mar 11, 2012 @ 09:56:33. I resent publishers colluding with Apple, a company that has obscene cash reserves, to raise prices for customers so that they don’t have to adapt to a rapidly changing market. I think making ebooks unavailable to libraries is …
Print sales are in retreat in almost all markets across the world tracked by Nielsen BookScan, with the drop in fiction sales particularly pronounced in markets, such as the UK and US, where e-book sales are growing quickly.
Many readers are avid book collectors, so here are a few updates, facts, opinions and tips from around the web.
Tanselle’s Book-Jackets – The Fine Books Blogwww.finebooksmagazine.com3/21/12 Since 1971, when “Book-Jackets, Blurbs, and Bibliographers,” the first of his major essays on dust jackets, appeared, Tanselle has been writing about the failure to preserve book jackets–by collectors, by dealers, and by …
Book Hoarding | Melville House Booksmhpbooks.com3/13/12Book collecting seems like such a noble pursuit — it suggests a passion for knowledge and an appreciation of intellectual pursuits. But the March 5 episode of Hoarders demonstrates that an acceptable, even admirable hobby …
Hollywood’s rare book collectors | Melville House Booksmhpbooks.com2/13/12 One would think that Hollywood bibliophiles would be flashy collectors, using the purchase receipts of valuable books to demonstrate some intellectual inner life that the tabloids usually strip them of. Indeed for some stars it …
Great places to buy and learn about Beat Generation Books (and …www.emptymirrorbooks.com2/9/07 INformation useful to those who collect Beat Generation – or other types of books – including biography, bibliography, book recommendations for collectors, links to collecting resources, and lots of other information. Book Collecting Guide | Best Books Sitebestbookssite.com9/20/08 Neptune Bound – The Ultimate Danelectro Guitar Guide – Book. Produced from 1954 to 1969, Danelectro guitars have found a place in the hearts of collectors and players with their space age design and affordable price tags. Here is the …
William Reese – The Fine Books Blogwww.finebooksmagazine.com3/16/12 William Reese of New Haven, CT, hardly needs an introduction to seasoned book collectors, but for those new to the hobby, his company offers the cream of the crop in Americana and Literature. Catalogues are generally …
Collecting Irish bookswww.thesomervillenews.com3/11/12 By Kenneth Gloss As with any other area of collecting, books dealing with Irish history subdivide into numerous categories that offer a multitude of collecting specialties. The Boston area is particularly rich in books about Irish …
Best Websites for Book Collectors | Very Best Websiteswww.verybestsites.com2/15/12 As with so many other hobbies, book collecting has become easier than ever because of the Internet. It is now much easier to search for books. All you need is a good Internet connection, and a list of the top book collecting websites, which is …
BUDDING BOOK COLLECTORS LEARN THE BASICS …bookcollecting101.com1/12/12 If you have a passion for books and have thought about starting to build a collection, you won’t want to miss the 45th California International Antiquarian Book Fair at the Pasadena Convention Center Feb. 10-12.
On Personal Libraries and Book Collecting « Capitolismcapitolismblog.com1/20/12 On Personal Libraries and Book Collecting. leave a comment ». I visited a used bookstore in Oxford yesterday. While I worked assiduously to fight off my desire to buy the whole shop, I came away with a nice collection of old, …
Whether you are a dealer, a collector, or simply a book enthusiast it is essential to know something about the care and
A stack of generic mass-market paperback books. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
repair of books. How many times have we all come across perfectly usable books absolutely ruined by well-meaning but very primitive repairs using sticky tape ? I have a small country bookshop, and even I immediately bin any such that I come across rather than damage my reputation by selling them (or even trying to !). As a former bookbinder myself, I am aware that full scale restoration of books is a highly skilled and expensive process, but nevertheless it is quite possible to effect reasonable, usable repairs that are still good looking. There are a number of readily available books on the subject, and some of the following articles may help.
The Care and Feeding of Books Old and New: A Simple Repair…antiquebookrepair.affordabledealsfor.com4/3/04 It’s a fantastic help for anyone who frequently purchases secondhand books that would benefit from a little clean-up. The book starts out with an explanation of the common household products, as well as some specialized products, that will be of use to you in maintaining and repairing books. Then the authors talk about conditions which pose a threat to books -mold, insects, water, dirt, etc.- and what you can do to remedy the damage. There is a chapter on cleaning books and a …
How To Repair Book Bindings. » Curbly | DIY Design Community …www.curbly.com5/28/10 How To Repair Book Bindings. By: Chrisjob. Just because it’s … Follow these instructions from Wikihow to salvage your first editions, and don’t be afraid of those tired copies at used book stores. tagged. Books, book, binding …
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