Should I call them IndieQuotes?

Before we get to this week's quotes, I want to point out two things:
1. Check out the ever-growing blogroll. I've added a lot of new store blogs this week.
2. Before I left for BEA, I checked Google to see how well we'd kept IndieBound under wraps. There were two results, IndieBound.org and an unrelated MySpace page belonging to someone who grabbed the name before us. This morning, there are more than 16,000 hits. Not bad.

Procrastination tool. Don't say I didn't warn you: "I don't seem to be famous enough to be on here, but I LOVE IT ANYHOW." (via E. Lockhart)

This is what I have to put up with living in Connecticut: "Note to self: If dinner conversation might get heated, make sure to have a kitchen staff." (original story)

Reason #10,590 to get over book snobbery: "Reading is treated like harsh task rather than simple pleasure. Reading is the only form of entertainment that kids equate with homework."

Do as I say...: "That still leaves 58%, or well over half, of all parents wishing that their children would read more avidly than they do themselves."

Best disclaimer I've seen in a while: "Random Thoughts is not a subsidiary of Random House or its affiliates. They are just... well, random thoughts."

Getting straight to the point: "scratch the petty critique and give it up for a new independent bookstore. something I think all can agree we don't have nearly enough of."

Check out the dueling MBAs: "Also, Godin’s “zero-cost ebooks” is—pardon the pun—fiction."

We got the pronunciation, now let's master the spelling: "Slightly Crazy In Every Sense: Zealous Kitlit Ambassador."

This is true of so many things: " "It's no problem, as long as you don't have a life," said Patricia Cornwell."

We're thinking of getting this printed and framed: "I go to a bookstore everyday- but, then, I’m strange like that."

How you know your graphic designer has done a good job: "Seriously, larceny is in my future. Cue the Mission Impossible music."

Sigh. These aren't even the kind of insights that got him a lifetime ban from the securities industry: "Get over it folks. Time to get your butts out to Cupertino (Apple / AAPL) and Seattle (Amazon / AMZN), cut some real deals, and save your dying industry(and some trees, while you're at it)." (via Joe Wikert)

And a double-header from a couple of my favorite sales reps -

I was starting to wonder: "Manly Men are back."

You can't say she didn't warn you: "This is not a book to read if you are too sophisticated for bathroom humor, sexual entendres of the teenage sort, and an inconceivable, over-the-top plot and style."

Posted at 02:04PM Jun 13, 2008 by Sarah Rettger in General  |