Reading Copy Book Blog

Anyone living in or around Vancouver BC has the chance to meet a number of our charming staff this Sunday (Sept. 30) at the Word on the Street Festival. AbeBooks will have two booths set up at the event. One for our website and the other for our Story Laboratory program where we teach kids [...]

By a small margin of 5 votes, Avid Reader Book Club members have chosen The Strength of the Sun by Catherine Chidgey as the next novel to read. (The book was first published in New Zealand as Golden Deeds.) Order your copy soon so that you can start reading with the Book Club on Monday, [...]

I got an email from one of our buyers asking about how to take care of your collection, so I thought I would post the few websites I was going to send to them on the blog here for everyone. First you can stop at our rare book room where we have some commonly asked [...]

Five of the top 10 bestselling novels in Japan have been written by a new breed of mobile phone writer. Traditional novelists and critics pan the stories for lack of depth and development, but the kids just love em! It reminds me a lot of this story from a few months back about a novel [...]

Here is Cathy Waters’ third and final posting of the week – this time she explains why the book business is the best business in the world ——————- When I started my first bookstore, it was my first foray into the retail world. Honestly, my first job was as a short-order cook at a fast-food [...]

The so-called Devil’s Bible is returning to Prague after more than three centuries in Sweden following a bit of looting, the Daily Telegraph. Sentenced to be walled up and die a slow death for some unutterable sin, a monk promised to write out the world’s biggest Bible in return for his freedom. With just one [...]

The other day I stopped by a local store before heading home. Lo and behold what caught my eye? A copy of Are You Hungry Tonight? Elvis’ Favourite Recipes! My Hound Dog senses must have sniffed it out. At $2.50, and being an Elvis fan, I just had to buy it. (Now Don’t Be Cruel [...]

Today, Cathy Waters recalls how the founders of AbeBooks used the media to spread the word. —————————- One of the interesting things about starting a new Internet company, in a time before Google, Facebook and iTunes, was how to promote the website. I don’t mean promoting the website as in banging your own drum, but [...]

If you can read this you might enjoy the library.

Today, we have our first guest post from Cathy Waters – one of the AbeBooks’ founders ———————– A lot of people ask me what I’ve done since we sold our interest in AbeBooks. Well, Keith, my husband, and I decided we would take a year off, do some travelling, then decide what we wanted to [...]