Soapbox: Now More Than Ever by Carl Lennertz - 11/02/2009
There's been some talk recently about the future of the fall regional association trade shows: GLiBA, MBA, MPIBA, NAIBA, NEIBA, NCIBA, PNBA, SCIBA and SIBA. Every August and September, I curse these shows.
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Soapbox: Selling Green by Jennifer Kaplan - 10/26/2009
Business owners are realizing that they have a responsibility to help protect the environment. But what about your bookstore? Where do you fit in, and can changes you enact really make a difference?
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Soapbox: The More Things Change... By Leslea Newman - 10/19/2009
When I first conceived of Heather Has Two Mommies in 1988, I had no idea that it would be so loved - and so hated. I had no idea it would appear on “most challenged” book lists alongside Huckleberry Finn and The Catcher in the Rye. I had no idea it would become part of the congressional record and be debated on the Senate floor.
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Soapbox: Textbook Buying 101 by Tom Simpson - 10/12/2009
Two books, $325? If you haven't purchased a textbook recently, you're in for a surprise.
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Soapbox: Where Ideas Go to Die, Not Spread By Seth Godin - 10/05/2009
In this environment, independent bookstores have become the antithesis of the ubiquity of the long tail’s endless web. But they needn’t retreat from this new reality. They can thrive.
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Soapbox: Embargoing... Going... Gone! by Laurence Hughes - 09/28/2009
Some consider the embargo a nuisance that has outlived its usefulness; others think it is a reliable marketing strategy. A surprising number think embargo is the French word for snails.
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Soapbox: Meeting History by Simon Read - 09/21/2009
Following a signing for my book, I stood in a parking lot in South San Francisco and watched a man pull a small, copper-plated pistol from a shoebox in the trunk of his Audi.
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