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NBA basketball coach Arnold “Red” Auerbach passed away Saturday. For those who do not know, Auerbach was the fiesty Boston Celtics coach who helped build one of the most celebrated dynasties in the game. Between 1950 and 1966, he won nine championships, including eight in a row from 1959 to 1966. Red not only coached but he [...]

Looking a tiny bit like an author is apparently enough to publish a book. Chuck Young, who says he is mistaken for the horror writer all the time, wrote a fan-fiction/spoof where a man who looks like Stephen King gets sucked into a parallel universe on his way to work in which he is forced to [...]

On Saturday, a group of Abers put on a workshop for kids at one of our local libraries in Victoria, BC. A group of 8-12 year-olds signed up to make books with us. We supplied the paper, pencils, stickers and pipe cleaners, and they supplied the stories. I was excited to attend, though a little [...]

True fans of Stephen King are exceptionally passionate about his books… even if it means paying $8,000 for a bullet-decorated copy of The Regulators. Check out the 10 most expensive Stephen King books ever sold through AbeBooks.

Virgil’s, The Aeneid will be easily understood with Robert Fagles’ translated version of the epic poem due out this week.  Fagles isn’t new to translations; He’s also translated The Iliad and Odyssey, both of which became bestsellers.  Read more about Fagles’ labours in today’s New York Times.

A new book called The Anger Scale by Katie Degentesh – a founding member of the avant-garde poetry group, Flarf Collective – just received a glowing review in Publishers Weekly. Flarf, for those who don’t know, is loosely described as a new genre of modern poetry where the poets mine the Internet for odd search [...]

Recently, a few book publishers have reported an increase in sales after the launch of the controversial program. Does knowing what is inside the book make you more likely to buy it?

Collectors of religious books might be interested to hear that one particular AbeBooks seller is listing books from the personal library of Professor emeritus at Princeton Theological Seminary, Bruce Metzger. Bruce is on the board of the American Bible Society and a respected scholar of Greek, as well as the New Testament and Old Testament [...]

While doing some homework on science fiction authors, I was deeply impressed by Isaac Asimov’s incredible mutton chops. Is there any other author with such impressive facial hair? Karl Marx….

Barack Obama, the Democratic senator for Illinois and maybe/maybe not presidential candidate, is a hot property right now. If you’re looking for that $1,698 signed first edition of Dreams From My Father – here it is.