October 28, 2013
Every year, the Shelburne Community School kindergartners visit local businesses on foot, walking from their school down the long Harbor Road to town, settling in and asking...
September 26, 2013
Sometimes I feel like the bookselling day is just one long version of Laura Numeroffâ??s If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. This is a book Iâ??m sure youâ??re familiar with, but just...
September 21, 2013
The answer is, of course there is a market for midlist (that is, not bestselling but solid) titles â?? but is that market growing or shrinking? Iâ??ve been in this field a long...
August 3, 2013
In July 25′s post, we asked you to do your worst – or at least, to come up with the worst event idea based on a book. You delivered! We got chuckles and/or shudders from...
July 22, 2013
With this week’s leak of J.K. Rowling’s pen name (one of them, at least), I thought it would be fun to share a lively piece of fan fiction. It’s one...
July 18, 2013
Is it just me, or are even avid readers reading fewer books? Once upon a time, I would read several books each week. My annual reading numbered in the dozens, even hundreds, of...
July 16, 2013
As much as I love schools encouraging their students to read over the summer, I’m afraid it’s true that nothing can suck the joy out of a great book faster than being...
July 9, 2013
If you’re having a hard day at the office, you might be able to shut your door for a little privacy, or take a long lunch, or hide out in the bathroom for five minutes. In a...
June 10, 2013
In recent years at BEA, a really fun and kind of crazy event takes place: Author Speed Dating, in which tables of booksellers and librarians are visited by up to 20 authors, one at...
June 3, 2013
Some books get you in their talons and wonâ??t let go. You know a book has you in its grip whenâ?¦â?¦ you choose to make risotto for dinner because all that stirring will buy...
May 29, 2013
This year marks my 20th BEA or so (I started going back in 1989, when I was a whippersnapper in publishing, the show was called “ABA,” and it was held in venues other...
May 1, 2013
E.L. Konigsburg had a glorious mind and she wasnâ??t afraid to use it. I was an advanced reader at a young age and drank in her smart, unusual books like refreshing, even...
April 11, 2013
Commerce at the Flying Pig Bookstore screeched to a halt the other day when a picture book, newly unpacked, proved to be so charming, so chock full of loveable goodness, that staff...
March 12, 2013
It happens to many families: children grow up, move out, go to college, and their parents are left trying to figure out what to do with all of their stuff, especially their books....
February 21, 2013
I’ve always had trouble remembering the endings of books—which I have decided is simply a case of denial, the result of wanting a particular book world not to come to a...
February 16, 2013
Moving house is a big undertaking. The new place isn’t quite finished yet, so all of the bookcases aren’t along the walls; in fact, most of the books haven’t even...
