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Clear your calendar April 11th, 2008

Tomorrow, April 12th is Alabama Bound. It’s the tenth year for the author festival and is a little different this year as it is tied in with our local The Big Read push.
Also…
April 19th is just around the corner and that is when the 2008 Alabama Book Festival is taking place. It’s 9am-4pm that Saturday […]


Amazon, again April 10th, 2008

Wow, if there is any truth to this tid-bit Amazon is getting good at throwing their weight around. On the heels, of the P.O.D. smack-down, publishers in the U.K. now fear an Amazonian backlash over pricing structures.
Basically, the gist is Amazon prices all they offer at a big discount. Some publishers, in order to lure […]


April 10th, 2008

Tonight, Susannah Felts will be signing her new book This Will Go Down in Your Permanent Record at the Little Professor, in Homewood, from 6p-8p.


King and Conroy April 10th, 2008

This one is going to make my wife very happy. We haven’t missed a Cassandra King signing yet. She’s even gone so far as to find a signed copy of Making Waves in Zion back when she was Cassandra King Ray and publishing with Black Belt Press. Well, here is a video of hubby Pat […]


Local author sheds light on local liquor laws and history April 9th, 2008

Joe Coker, a Samford Religion professor, has turned his doctorial thesis into a book, Liquor in the Land of the Lost Cause: Southern White Evangelicals and the Prohibition Movement. (Nov2007/Univ. of Kentucky Press) It sounds very facinating as it looks at the history of the South’s view of alcohol and prohibition, through the lens of […]


Cool bookshelf April 2nd, 2008

I know, I know- this isn’t the most efficient use of space and I’m sure if a book were wide enough it would slant the spine. But I can not find the words to express how bad I want one of these…

{via FreshHome}


Librarian fired for collaring perv April 1st, 2008

This story is like an onion. I have no idea what kind of code, guidelines, rules, laws, etc. that librarians follow, but this story has to fall in every grey area out there. Are there librarians that say the patron who was arrested here, should not have been reported?
I’m all for privacy and protected speech, […]


Lightning strikes Amazon April 1st, 2008

Let’s hear it for compeititon! Amazon has been forced to spell out exactly what their new POD policies allow and ban. In response to a letter from competitor Lightning Source’s John Ingram, Amazon has conceded that there are still ways to sell your POD books on site without using their Booksurge program…
Amazon further notes that […]


10-cent books! March 28th, 2008

Greencup Books has a ton of books upstairs all priced at a dime. It’s not a stellar crop to choose from. But if you’re into the serialized mass market paperbacks, this is the Holy Grail. Also, fans of Harlan Coben and Patricia Cornwell should take note, there are hundreds of Hardbacks up there. (I did […]


Amazon.com: the big bully March 28th, 2008

Amazon.com has announced that they will no longer allow Print On Demand books to be sold on their site… unless they are printed by Amazon’s own POD service BookSurge. It’s no secret that the big A has been struggling to gain a foothold in the booming POD world. But they haven’t been able to. Many […]


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