Reading Copy Book Blog

Fans of rare books will enjoy Bookride, a vibrant blog from Any Amount of Books on Charing Cross Road in London – lots of interesting information on collecting and pricing (and a sprinkling of humour too).

Google is to share video archives of the authors that come and speak to their staff. Looks like a wide variety of authors – science fiction to politics to business to culture: John Scalzi – who we also interviewed here Chris Anderson Neil Gaiman Joseph Stiglitz Hillary Clinton

The Associated Press looks at the myriad of websites dedicated to Harry Potter. Melissa Anelli, the founder of the Leaky Cauldron, estimates there are three to four million websites dedicated to Harry Potter around the world.

Boing Boing highlights an interesting blog posting about Richard Evans Schultes’s Golden Guide to Hallucinogenic Plants.

Read a poem in a bookstore and get a free loaf of bread. Some innovative marketing from the Atticus bookstore in New Haven, Connecticut.

There is an online petition in an attempt to save the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s book review section, which is under threat.

The most expensive book to ever sell through AbeBooks was a first edition of The Hobbit for $65,000. The Children of Hurin by JRR Tolkien – which was edited by Christopher Tolkien, son of JRR – was only released two weeks ago and has been selling well on AbeBooks. However, a market for ‘signed’ copies [...]

Jodi Picoult talks about Virginia Tech, Columbine and her book Nineteen Minutes.

Later on today, AbeBooks will place an interview with Mark Ames, the author of Going Postal, on the site. However, readers of Reading Copy get to see it first. Read on…. Mark Ames is the author of Going Postal: Rage, Murder, and Rebellion: From Reagan’s Workplaces to Clinton’s Columbine and Beyond, which has been thrust [...]

The winners of the Edgar Awards have been announced. These awards celebrate mystery writing. The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin took the best novel prize.