Reading Copy Book Blog

American politics became interesting once again this morning. Sarah Palin, the Governor of Alaska and a runner-up in the 1984 Miss Alaska beauty contest, is to be John McCain’s running mate apparently. It’s a smart move by McCain in an attempt to pick up the nation’s female voters who loved Hillary Clinton but don’t love [...]

I am a little early but I have a spare minute so in honour of International Blog Day (this Sunday) I’m going to post some of our employee’s favourite blogs. Sterling in Online Marketing suggests The Used Books Blog as it offers another neat take on the used book industry from an SEO (search engine [...]

The great Russian author was born on August 28th 1828, and would have been 180 today! Tolstoy was best known for authoring War and Peace. If you have a lot of time today you could take a stab at reading a large chunk of it, and if you have even more money you could take [...]

There are vast numbers of political and social commentators, many of them with wildly unusual views and opinions. Generally their opinionated speeches and writings largely blend in to the general whir of divergent opinion that abounds during election season. Stanley Kurtz, however, has managed to draw national attention, including direct criticism from the Barack Obama [...]

So while you’re looking to buy textbooks for your upcoming semester why not check and see if any of your old books are worth selling? Just because your school wouldn’t want to buy your textbooks back doesn’t mean that they are worthless. AbeBooks textbook buyback is on a national scale, so even if your local [...]

BookFinder.com has just released its annual report on the most searched for out of print books in America. Some of the books have been taken out of print because they are controversial, such as The Autobiography of Howard Hughes by Clifford Irving but most books are taken out of print simply because the publisher saw [...]

To celebrate what would have been Tory Peterson’s 100th birthday a special anniversary edition of his famous bird watching book from Field Guide to Birds is being published. According to Publishers Weekly the 1934 first edition of Field Guide to the Birds sold out its 2,000 copy print run in two weeks and went on [...]

I’m not really supposed to link to the websites of auction houses (because they are rivals) but I have to show you this page. Item 1 – a super rare first edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone that looks like it’s been chewed by a dog and shoved down the back of a [...]

Dave Freeman, the co-author of the travel book “100 Things to Do Before You Die,” died tragically in a fall in his home yesterday. “This life is a short journey,” the book says. “How can you make sure you fill it with the most fun and that you visit all the coolest places on earth [...]

Grammar vigilantes! Lynne Truss would be proud of them.