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• "A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking." ~Jerry Seinfeld
• "I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?'
  She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose." ~George Carlin

Buildings & Services

• Our Gift To The Author's Guild: An Ad For Brick & Mortar Book Stores 3/28/2012
• The Joy of Books (video; 1:52); 1/9/2012
• E-Books, Shmee-Books: Readers Return to the Stores 12/13/2011
• Norwegian bookseller begins selling e-books on memory cards, for some reason 11/21/2011
• Novelist Fights the Tide by Opening a Bookstore (Ann Patchett; Nashville; small and sleek, with personal service, intimate author events and a carefully chosen rotation of books); 11/16/2011
• What an e-reader can't give you (pleasure of wandering through bookstore aisles); 10/14/2011
• An Ode to Cheap Books in a Former Borders (remaindered books); 10/10/2011
• Serendipity Books, R.I.P. (Berkeley; antiquarian books); 9/7/2011
• The Daily Show (John Hodgman) On How Chain Bookstores Can Compete With The Internet [video; 5:44]; (historical attraction; live authors write novels on demand; ...); 8/20/2011
• Independent bookstores find ways to compete in the digital age (book club meetings, author events, student discounts); 8/7/2011
• Free Penguin Classics App Doesn’t Contain Ebooks, But Has Plenty More Nostalgic Features (descriptions and quizzes); 6/29/2011
• End Of Days For Bookstores? Not If They Can Help It (children's story time; sell e-books and eReaders); 12/14/2010
• BookWagon (E-books: Amazon, Nook)
• Bloomsbury (E-books: Google)

Online Bookstores

• Txtr Fights Amazon/Apple With iPhone/Android eBooks For The Rest Of Us Europe-based; txtr.com; 4/16/2012
• iBookstore to expand to Brazil within 30 days, magazine says 4/2/2012
• You Can Buy The Harry Potter E-Books Now—Here’s What You Need To Know (no DRM); 3/27/2012
• Harry Potter And The Missing Middlemen: Where The Pottermore Store Goes Wrong 3/27/2012
• Allez Les Books: France Suggests Amazon Tax To Help Independent Bookstores 3/16/2012
• How the e-book landscape is becoming a walled garden (Should e-bookstores only carry their parent company’s titles?); 2/29/2012
• Making Short Work of Shopping for Tablet Users (give E-books etc. to iPad, Kindle, Nook, Kobo users); 12/8/2011
• Book Shopping in Stores, Then Buying Online 12/4/2011
• Q&A: Buying E-books Without Wi-Fi (using 3G, USB); 10/18/2011
• UK book seller Waterstone's to enter the e-reader race (with devices and online bookstore); 9/10/2011
• Rowling Casts E-Book Spell (her own digital store: pottermore.com); 6/24/2011
• Publishers Make a Plan: A ‘One Stop’ Book Site (bookish.com) (suggestions, news, reviews, excerpts from Simon & Schuster, Penguin Group USA and Hachette Book Group)' 5/7/2011

Amazon

• Amazon's knock-off problem (35 Shades of Grey, anyone?) Be careful when you select a bestseller to purchase on Amazon, where knock-offs are prevalent; 4/16/2012
• Voldemort’s Got Nothing On Jeff Bezos large publishers & DRM unnecessary; 4/21/2012
• Amazon’s Jungle Logic (best-selling authors react to Amazon's attack on independent booksellers); 12/13/2011
• Amazon, Now a Book Lender Kindle Owners Who Subscribe to Prime Service Will Be Able to Borrow E-Titles (1/month; 5,000 titles; 'Netflix-style'); 11/3/2011
• In a Battle of the E-Readers, Booksellers Spurn Superheroes (Amazon deal with DC Comics); 10/19/2011
• Amazon Cracks Down on Some E-Book ‘Publishers’ (duplicates); 8/12/2011
• Booksellers are wary as Amazon tries to have it all 8/8/2011
• Amazon’s Bid For The (UK) Book Depository: User Backlash And Regulatory Inquiry 7/5/2011
• Find free and discounted Kindle e-books: eReaderIQ.com 4/8/2011

Apple

• Justice Department Bites Apple The 30% revenue-share model is the company's standard practice, not the product of a conspiracy; and agency model upheld by courts; 4/23/2012
• Apple cracking down on links in iBookstore titles 2/29/2012
• Apple adds Quick Reads section to iBookstore (short-form books for $5 or less); 9/12/2011
• 24symbols eBook app for iPad Offers Access to Online Public-Domain Titles 7/30/2011
• WSJ, Kobo, Nook, Kindle falling in line in Apple’s App Store (removing in-app purchasing links, using web site); 7/24/2011
• Apple Eases Rules for Publishers on Apps 6/10/2011
• iBookstore Finally Appears in iTunes 6/7/2011
• World's largest book publisher Random House may soon join Apple's iBookstore 2/28/2011
• Apple Affiliates

Barnes & Noble

• Barnes & Noble Incorporates In Germany, Closest Sign Yet Of European Nook Launch 3/29/2012
• Overstock.com Teams With Barnes & Noble For E-book Storefront 12/6/2011
• Barnes & Noble launches in-store Nook stations 11/7/2011
• Why Barnes & Noble is Selling Rugs 10/24/2011
• B&N Affiliates

Google

• Google: No more e-books for indie booksellers 4/5/2012
• Google plans to seek Books lawsuit dismissal (scanning, copyright); 12/5/2011
• Pottermore and Google team up to enable Harry Potter ebooks push to Google Books libraries 7/20/2011
• Google eBooks Affiliate program - Open for business 6/16/2011
• Inside the Google Books Algorithm 11/1/2010

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