Feel the Indie Love...
Di of Di's Book Blog is hosting a contest to show her love for Quail Ridge Books, Book Sense, and independent bookstores in general. She's asking visitors to her site to submit the name, address, and Web site of their local independent bookstore by November 1. One of the submitters will win a $25 Book Sense Gift Card, so encourage your customers to stop by (and also read the reasons Di supports independent bookstores).
There's another contest that might be of interest to soon-to-be-booksellers. Intuit, promoting its small business software, is offering a $40,000 grant to the winner of its "Just Start" competition. From the Web site:
Tell us what you'll Just Start. Fact, fiction or fantasy. What have you always dreamed of doing? What are you resigning from and moving towards? And, how will the Just Start grant ($50k) help you strike out on your own?
(via Duct Tape Marketing)
Don't worry, you'll get your bookland gossip after the jump.
Watch for an upcoming interview with former ABA president Mitch Kaplan and Stacy Mitchell, author of The Hometown Advantage, about the 25th anniversary of Books & Books. The audio will eventually be on Smart City Radio, but CEOs for Cities gives you a preview.
Booksellers are always good about helping colleagues, so stop by Alison Morris's blog to help her figure out a bookstore-related Halloween costume.
Thanks to the Inkwell Bookstore for this story: Bill Zanker, promoting the book he co-authored with Donald Trump, paid people to line up for the book outside a Manhattan Barnes & Noble. Always nice to see a book generating real grassroots buzz.
Book Club Girl points to Two Histories of England, a new release that combines Jane Austen's satire of English history with the version Charles Dickens wrote for his children. Keep this one in mind when customers come in search of presents for Anglophiles.
Can't remember how I came across this link (as always, if it was you, let me know in the comments), but this looks like a cool idea: BoysRead.org. Their mission is "to transform boys into lifelong readers." I've just skimmed their list of recommended books, but it looks like a great resource for booksellers whose list of "boy books" is never long enough. (For my part, I've started tagging boy books in my LibraryThing catalogue, so the list is actually there when I need it.)
Shel Silverstein as a business writer? Thus says the Shop Floor blog, via Village Books.
Finally, Jessica Stockton Bagnullo is taking a brief blogging break. If you don't understand why, check out her ever-growing list of responsibilities. Enjoy the rest, Jessica!
Posted at 03:59PM Oct 26, 2007 by Sarah Rettger in General | Comments[0]
