Reading Copy Book Blog

Once again, we’re looking for people who have science fiction and fantasy books that they wanted valued? A few weeks ago, the Book Guys NPR show hosted a special on collecting sci-fi and fantasy books and several of our customers had books valued. Well, the show was so successful that the Book Guys will be [...]

With the recent declaration of “Carbon Neutral” as the Oxford Word of the Year, Exxon admitting climate change is real, the British Columbia government announcing a reasonably aggressive plan to address climate change, and the unexpected popularity (success) of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth it would seem that the time for ‘green’ has come. So [...]

Hillel Italie, the Associated Press’ books reporter, writes about Irene Nemirovsky’s Suite Francaise and explains why this book continues to sell.

Former African child soldier Ismael Beah is packing out Starbucks on his promotional tour to support A Long Way Gone, says the Los Angeles Times this morning. The report says…. ….It was a surreal scene on a wintry afternoon last week in Manhattan, as more than 150 people jammed into a room that normally holds [...]

Another AbeBooks bookseller is profiled by a local newspaper today – this time it is Vic Linoff who runs the Those Were The Days! Bookstore in Tempe, Arizona. From antiques to be a disc jockey to teaching, it sounds like Vic is an interesting character.

The Times of London celebrates the work of Philip K Dick, who died 25 years ago.  ”When I met Phil Dick in the spring of 1974, he was living in a small, rented apartment in Fullerton, California, with his fifth wife and their baby, desperately broke and worried that the Internal Revenue Service was out [...]

A major blow this morning for horticulturalists everywhere – all gardening books are now out of date thanks to climate change. “Books that were written in the 1980s and early 1990s, such as Geoff Hamilton’s The First Time Garden from 1988, no longer accurately reflect the fact that many plants that would normally be killed [...]

I got a huge feeling of deja vu when I saw this story about Jesus’ tomb being put on show in New York this morning. The Da Vinci Code all over again. This story is probably going to sell a lot of copies of The Jesus Family Tomb and make plenty of people watch James Cameron’s documentary. [...]

While Meg Gardiner continues to tear up the North American bestseller charts on AbeBooks.com (netting her second week at the #1 spot for China Lake),  Alaa Al Aswany has broken into the Top Ten Bestsellers in the UK with The Yacoubian Building.  The book was a huge hit in the Arab world becoming the bestselling Arabic novel in recent [...]

AbeBooks will be at the Spring Book Show this year in Atlanta, GA. I’ll be walking the floor March 24th and 25th. It’s an exciting visit, as it’s our first time attending, and it will be interesting to see how SBS compares to CIROBE, the other major US fair dedicated to the bargain and remainder book [...]