Tom Shone, in Intelligent Life’s Summer 2008 issue, laments bestsellers lists in the UK and the U.S. The NYT bestsellers list looks pretty erudite compared with the UK’s top sellers, which consist mostly of books by celebrities and reality-show has-beens, until we realise that the NYT shunted off the self-help and advice books to another […]
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A bookstore owner in Portsmouth, NH, arrested Monday for writing bad checks, charged customers a $5 ‘browsing fee’ for the privilege of looking at books in his Antiquarian bookstore on Route 1. He also assaulted and insulted customers. More at Seacoastonline.
The browsing fee seemed like a crazy business strategy to me — charging people for […]
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American comic book writer and Marvel editor Danny Fingeroth has selected his “Top 10 graphic novels” (those he enjoyed most), which include books by Kyle Baker, Bryan Talbot, Peter Kuper, Will Eisner, Art Spiegelman, Marjane Satrapi, and others. Agree?
Filed under: readers advisory, best of, graphic novels on August 1st, 2008 | No Comments »