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In honor of today’s scientific discovery, AbeBooks has gathered a selection of unique and fascinating pieces of ephemera and books related to Albert Einstein. So it looks like Albert Einstein knew what he was talking about. After years of searching, scientists have confirmed that they have indeed detected gravitational waves for the very first time. These […]

AbeBooks is pleased to announce that we have been named one of British Columbia’s Top Employers for 2012.

The November 2011 issue of Which? Magazine has just been published in the UK and it carries an in-depth review of the UK’s online shopping sites. If you don’t know Which?, it’s the UK’s leading consumer protection organization and highly respected for its work in consumer affairs. Which? surveyed 14,671 of its members about their […]

The Observer’s Rachel Cooke profiles Stella Gibbons, author of Cold Comfort Farm and so much more (she wrote 32 books in all). I’m not sure if profile is the correct word as Gibbons died in 1989. Gibbons believed she might have a hit on her hands early on: the girls who typed her manuscript (of […]

In publishing jargon, a proof is the preliminary iteration of a book, intended for a limited audience. Its purpose is to allow for final edits. The proofs can also help to build and maintain buzz about a book before its official release date, generate some early reviews and have potential readers eager to get their […]

There is a tremendous article in the Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal Sentinel about dogs in literature. AbeBooks even gets a mention. It covers off companion dogs, talking dogs, bad dogs and future dogs. In Mikhail Bulgakov’s 1925 Soviet satire, Heart of a Dog, a crazed professor implants a human pituitary gland and testicles into a stray […]

Nietzsche, the feline resident of The Book Man bookshop in Chilliwack BC, has been using his new found fame for a good cause. After being chosen one of AbeBooks’ top bookstore cats, Nietzsche used his star power to release a limited edition set of “pawtographed” bookmarks, which when sold raised $250 for Chilliwack Animal Safe […]

The Guardian ponders Joseph Conrad’s little-known, little-read science fiction novel, The Inheritors, which was written in Ford Madox Ford. Glad we could help the writer find a copy. Take look at the first edition, second state (pictured here) from 1901.

AbeBooks was mentioned in today’s New Zealand Herald while discussing the escalating prices for remaining copies of Witi Ihimaera’s controversial, and now rare, 2009 historical fiction novel The Trowenna Sea. The book was originally published in New Zealand in 2009, but was removed from public sale after Ihimaera was accused of Plagiarising from several historians. […]

A college newspaper at the University of Wisconsin (Waukesha) recently ran a price comparison on textbooks and compared the campus bookstore to AbeBooks, Chegg, Amazon, Bigwords and Half. Guess who had the best price? I’ll give you a clue – it wasn’t Chegg, Amazon, Bigwords or Half. Learn more about finding the cheapest textbooks on […]