Reading Copy Book Blog

The Internet is a wonderful thing. In the UK, Dirk Benedict – better known as Faceman from the A-Team and Starbuck in the 1970s version of Battlestar Galactica – turns up on a major reality TV show called Celebrity Big Brother.  Along with other celebrities looking for another 15 minutes in the limelight, he is [...]

A few of links of note I came across in the last couple of days: Google moving towards e-book service New York Public Library Digital Gallery iPhone as e-book reader? Digital books and content. It seems everytime you turn around these days someone is wanting to revolutionise the way we read books. Each new piece [...]

A crazy article about a unique bookshop.

AbeBooks.com is looking for booklovers who have a rare science fiction book they would like to get valued. We have a partnership with an NPR radio show called the Book Guys and each week they take callers from AbeBooks customers who have a rare book they want valued. On Tuesday February 6, they are recording [...]

Bookslut points out an interesting article about a book called The Gospel of Food by Barry Glassner – a sociologist at the University of Southern California. The book examines the average American’s fears about food.

The Guardian looks at authors on video and how they handle the 90-second elevator pitch.

The Chicago Sun-Times takes a look at the remainder book industry. The remainder booksellers were among the first people to realise what the Internet could do for them with many joining AbeBooks in the early days. They knew that someone somewhere wanted that book and the Internet was the best way to get the book [...]

Who’s behind some of those fantastic Penguin book covers? David Pearson. He designed all the “Great Ideas” series, which has been mentioned before. Some really excellent and inspirational work.

This is an amazing story and, by far, the best story I’ve heard for sometime. Author Ian McEwan has discovered that he has a brother – a bricklayer. As if that’s not enough, check out the details about how Ian’s brother was given away at a railway station after an ad was placed in the [...]

The Guardian blogs about a project that encourages people to write about people and places that have influenced them. For the benefit of my North American cousins, the M40 (Will Self’s topic last year) is a major highway into London and usually completely filled with stationary cars.