Bookseller Blogs

I’ve run across a number of new (or previously unknown to me) bookseller blogs in the last few weeks. So I’ve put together a list. Our bookseller blogosphere is comprised of owners of open shops, basement sellers, rare book dealers, dedicated handsellers at chain stores, and the giant Powell’s City of Books. Some write about the business of bookselling, everyday aspects of a bookseller’s life, others gush about their favorite books, track general book news, or wander off to non-book topics. (I’ll also point out that most of the blogs are more interesting and more consistently updated than the Using Books Weblog. I’ll take that as inspiration.)

Here’s the list:

Two lapsed bookseller blogs:

Do you know of others?

April 03rd 2006 Posted to Links

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Sweet Valley Wannabe

British writer John Barlow writes about being hired by a book packager to write a children’s book:

The guy at 17th Street had seen my novella collection Eating Mammals, and he wanted to know if I’d be interested in doing some writing for them. To put this in context, my writing is a bit like T.C. Boyle’s, a tad wild, but controlled at the same time. Eating Mammals is about a man who eats furniture and dead dogs. My new novel is about a soft drink made from rhubarb and cocaine. If only you could reproduce that kind of thing for kids, they said.

April 28th 2006 Posted to Links, The Un-Category

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