Reading Copy Book Blog

Last month readers bombarded AbeBooks with searches for the fictional book Love Letters of Great Men, after seeing it featured in the Sex and the City movie. The closest thing that existed at the time was an old out of print book of poems called Love Letters of Great Men and Women: From The Eighteenth [...]

Just in time for Christmas JK Rowling will have another book out. The Tales of Beedle the Bard is going be transformed from seven privately, held hand written, jewel incrusted tomes into a publicly printed charity project.

Ann Patchett writes in Atlantic Monthly about the pros and cons of book tours.

The NY Times tells us rare cocktail books are in demand. Could cocktails ever go out of fashion?

The profile of Stephenie Meyer just keeps on growing. Now the demand for signed copies of her Twilight books is steadily increasing. We not talking JK Rowling hysteria here but last month AbeBooks.com sold a signed first edition of Twilight, her first book, for $1000. It’s the most expensive Meyer book ever sold by us. [...]

I wish I knew about AbeBooks and buying online when I was in university. I did what I could to stretch my budget but a good source for used books would have been so valuable, I did learn a few tricks that might be helpful for students today. Ask the professor if an old edition [...]

According to The Bookseller (a UK based magazine) sales for the 13 long listed Booker novels are a bit on the sluggish side. Only 11 of them are available for sale in shops and combined they have only sold 42,451 copies, which is 20,000 copies shy of overly endowed UK glamour model, and page 3 [...]

When he was accidently announced as the winner for the Wales Book of the Year award earlier this month, only to be turned away halfway to the podium as the presenter realized he read his instructions incorrectly, Tom Bullough must have been more than a little miffed. Turns out he may get the last laugh [...]

Science Fiction fans will recieve one final gift from the science fiction master, Arthur C. Clarke on August 5th when his final novel,The Last Theorem , will be released. Clarke was writing the novel in 2005 when his health began to turn for the worst, thus he turned to fellow vetern Frederik Pohl to help [...]

On the heels of their Best of the Booker announcement, The Man Booker Committee has announced the long list for its annual Booker prize… The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga Girl in a Blue Dress by Gaynor Arnold The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry From A to X by John Berger The Lost Dog by [...]