You've heard the saying "God laughs at your plans." Well, I had planned to go shopping on Saturday, at the biggest used book emporium I could find, but I got deathly ill late on Friday night and I'm just now crawling out of it.
So, today, we have chosen a vintage book shop owned by women (bonus points) and I hope they're ready for us. They have 80,000 used books and collectibles. "Jeeves, my shopping cart!" It's like letting us loose in a candy store.
Is today #PrimeDay at a certain billionaire's online retail store—the one that acts as if it was modeled after the evil corporations in Science Fiction dystopias?
Well, it's also a sales day at Bookshop.org, which is a website that was created to help independent booksellers resist in the USA and UK.
Both today and tomorrow, July 12, Bookshop.org is offering free shipping on orders of physical books. Additionally, a free tote bag will be provided for purchases above $100. This seems to apply to purchases of CDs and pre-recorded players, as well.
To shop, choose your favorite online #Bookshop seller or the general site (linked below) so that a portion of sales is split up among independent stores.
In Traveller today in The Sunday Age (Melbourne) and Sun-Herald (Sydney), my travel writer colleagues and I talk about the places we always go back to in certain countries.
My nomination: The Last Bookstore in Los Angeles (it's fabulous!).
It's not online yet, so pick it up in print today and I'll share the link later if it goes online.
While I often use the local indie #bookshop, I also am often in remoter places with no bookshop (sob) So I am interested in online book sellers.
Who among the booklovers uses new-to-me Tertulia.com?
Is it even open to folks outside the US? I'd love to hear about anyone's experience/thoughts
Rewriting my #introduction because I didn't get the importance of tagging over here. Apologies if you've seen this before...
I'm retired, which means I'm pretty busy. I volunteer at a charity #bookshop, write occasional reviews for London #Jazz News, write even rarer reviews on my own blog, and take lots of #photographs.
Been to Alnwick today to swap a box of kids books for a handful of weightier tomes at Barter Books. We then popped into town to search out a new independent bookshop. What a brilliant find. The Accidental Bookshop is well worth a visit. Article here from its opening in 2022.
Looking for your very own copy of horror anthology This Fresh Hell? Readings at Emporium still has it, tucked into an Anthology shelf next to Australian Fiction
“From words to prosperity.” 📖
“We see reading as part of living.” 📚
“From now on I would keep the lights on in my heart.” ❤️
“Books always make life more vibrant! Thank you.”
🇪🇸 Madrid’s OLDEST bookshop, the San Ginés Book Shop
A stone’s throw from one of the most famous places in #Madrid for churros with chocolate is this picturesque #bookstore. The San Ginés #BookShop is actually one of the oldest #bookshops in #Spain
It is situated in the scenic Pasadizo de San Ginés, between Calle Arenal and Calle Mayor, near the parish of the same name and Chocolatería de San Ginés
Its beginnings can be traced to the 17th century when #Diego_Logroño ⏩
Where (in England) do they sell physical copies of mathematics and physics textbooks that you can pick up and peruse before buying?
The obvious answer is Foyles on Charing Cross Road, but lately the selection of maths & physics textbooks there has been pitiful. They're barely bothering to stock textbooks any more (it didn't look much better for the adjacent chemistry and biology sections either), and lately when I've gone, it's not sated my need to physically shop for textbooks.
Added Ophelia Bell's shop to my list of DRM-free bookshops! 💜
Ophelia Bell is the USA Today bestselling author of the award-winning Fate’s Fools series and loves a good bad-boy and especially strong women in her stories.
It's a Sunday, which means another day in our bookshop! 2024 has been a patchy year so far, so I'm hoping the better (?) weather brings bookish types out! #bookshop#scottishborders#books
Added Low Tech Magazine to my list of DRM-free bookshops.
Low-tech Magazine was founded in November 2007 and underscores the potential of past and often forgotten technologies and how they can inform sustainable energy practices.