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Reading Copy has a sister. AbeBooks has just launched a new blog called Pages & Proofs for our AbeBooks.co.uk site, which serves our British customers. I’m handling most of the blogging on Pages & Proofs and I promise to make it the same but different to Reading Copy. It will be the same in that [...]

The BC Book Prizes were handed out in Vancouver on Saturday evening. Victoria’s Esi Edugyan, who has probably built an extension to house all her trophies, won the fiction prize for Half-Blood Blues – a novel about jazz musicians in Germany. She had already won the Giller Prize, been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and [...]

The London Antiquarian Book Fair is just around the corner. This fair is one of the annual highlights on the book collecting calendar and we urge fans of AbeBooks in the UK to get down to Olympia, and see the world’s finest rare books. It begins on Thursday 24 May and runs until Saturday 26 [...]

Very sad news from the book world today, American children’s book author and illustrator Maurice Sendak has died at the age of  83. He is best known for Where the Wild Things Are, published in 1963 and a bedtime reading favorite ever since. The BBC reports that the book has sold 19 million copies. The [...]

The Galleycat publishing blog reports that a self-published author called Genevieve Jones has won a book deal from Princeton Architectural Press. Hardly earth shattering news, except that Jones’ book, Illustrations of the Nests and Eggs of Birds of Ohio, was self-published more than 125 years ago. Amateur naturalist Jones died of typhoid at just 32 and [...]

We urge fans of AbeBooks, and books in general, to take a look at the AbeBooks’ Tumblr – Bookorithms. It is devoted to beautiful, notable and rare books. Bookorithms is a very visual journey through our sort of books – famous first editions, memorable dust jackets, beautiful bindings, eye-catching illustration and obscure but interesting books [...]

Bob Geldof is a bibliophile. To some people, he’s the lead singer from the Boomtown Rats. To other people, he’s the hero of Live Aid. He’s also the man who named his children Fifi Trixibelle, Peaches Honeyblossom and Little Pixie. But it seems, according to this interview with ABC in Australia, that books are his [...]

The New York Times writes about the 60th anniversary of Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White. As the article’s headline says, this novel is indeed some book. So simple, so easy to read, so engaging for anyone reading or listening to someone read aloud. Earlier this year, I was reading Charlotte’s Web to my six-year-old daughter [...]

Anyone remember Down a Dark Hall by Lois Duncan from 1974? Stephenie Meyer does. Her movie production company Fickle Fish Films has optioned the rights to this forgotten young adult spine-chiller and and plans to make a movie, reports Variety. The novel concerns a boarding school filled with secrets and mysterious students.

I’m drawn to this photobook, Dancing with Cats by Burton Silver and Heather Busch, in the way that I have to look at a car crash on the side of the road as I’m driving by. Clearly that cat has some sweet moves but as for the ginger-haired woman…. what dance move is she actually [...]