A lawsuit accusing Dan Brown of stealing the idea for The Da Vinci Code opened yesterday in London. The New York Times has a report.
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The Book Industry Study Group's first comprehensive report on used book sales is now available for sale. The organization had previewed the report in detail at its annual meeting last year (Shelf Awareness, September 29). For more information about the BISG report, click here.
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A Sacramento Business Journal story (via MSNBC) about rising rents squeezing out central-city shops in the California capital mentions Beers Books, which moved twice before arriving at its present site 15 months ago. Owner Jim Naify, who also invests in real estate professionally, solved the rent problem once and for all, according the Journal: he bought the building last July. "I think that's the only strategy of survival for small business," he said.
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The Daily Breeze profiles the Path, the Redondo Beach, Calif., spiritual bookstore and gift shop that opened in 2001. Owned by Rev. Isaac Norris and Marie-Noel Quanquin, the store aims to be a place "where people could open up to the beauty of other religions and faiths in a nonthreatening way," Quanquin told the paper.
To help people on their road to enlightenment, the Path offers classes on astrology, sacred art, shamanism, psychic channeling and meditation, among other subjects. Norris told the Breeze that many people like to come in, hang out on the large couch and soak up the energy. "There is this one business owner who sits there for 30 or 40 minutes to relax and go back to his store," he said.
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Carol Valera Jacobson, who opened the Bookstore at the Serendipity Coffee Shop in Craig, Colo., two weeks ago, calls her used bookstore more of a "book redistribution site" than a bookstore, according to the Craig Daily Press. Book lovers can buy, sell or trade books at the store, which is located at 576 Yampa Ave.
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As part of a fund drive for Boulder, Colo.'s new public TV station, BTV-54, the local Barnes & Noble is operating a book drive through Saturday, according to the Colorado Daily. Customers can get a voucher at B&N; a percentage of the purchase price goes to the station.
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The Book Industry Study Group's first comprehensive report on used book sales is now available for sale. The organization had previewed the report in detail at its annual meeting last year (Shelf Awareness, September 29). For more information about the BISG report, click here.
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A Sacramento Business Journal story (via MSNBC) about rising rents squeezing out central-city shops in the California capital mentions Beers Books, which moved twice before arriving at its present site 15 months ago. Owner Jim Naify, who also invests in real estate professionally, solved the rent problem once and for all, according the Journal: he bought the building last July. "I think that's the only strategy of survival for small business," he said.
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The Daily Breeze profiles the Path, the Redondo Beach, Calif., spiritual bookstore and gift shop that opened in 2001. Owned by Rev. Isaac Norris and Marie-Noel Quanquin, the store aims to be a place "where people could open up to the beauty of other religions and faiths in a nonthreatening way," Quanquin told the paper.
To help people on their road to enlightenment, the Path offers classes on astrology, sacred art, shamanism, psychic channeling and meditation, among other subjects. Norris told the Breeze that many people like to come in, hang out on the large couch and soak up the energy. "There is this one business owner who sits there for 30 or 40 minutes to relax and go back to his store," he said.
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Carol Valera Jacobson, who opened the Bookstore at the Serendipity Coffee Shop in Craig, Colo., two weeks ago, calls her used bookstore more of a "book redistribution site" than a bookstore, according to the Craig Daily Press. Book lovers can buy, sell or trade books at the store, which is located at 576 Yampa Ave.
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As part of a fund drive for Boulder, Colo.'s new public TV station, BTV-54, the local Barnes & Noble is operating a book drive through Saturday, according to the Colorado Daily. Customers can get a voucher at B&N; a percentage of the purchase price goes to the station.