The Gospel According to Paul by Emily Grosvenor - 10/06/2008
If the world were a just place, there would be a constant spotlight from heaven shining on bookseller Paul Ingram. Instead, he's swathed in the glow of fluorescent lights in the basement commons room of First Unitarian Church in Davenport, Iowa. At 10 on a Sunday morning, he's practicing the fine art of the hand-sell.
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Can New Bookstores Survive? by Judith Rosen - 10/06/2008
Since 2006, there's been a miniboom in independent bookstore openings with more than 250 entering the market. Late last month, however, two of these bookstores closed: Storybook Lane Book Shoppe in San Carlos, Calif., and Under the Sycamore Tree in Grayslake, Ill. In a letter to the ABC listserv, the Storybook Lane founder, Karen Elmore, wrote, “These last two years have been a struggle, ...
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Web Posts Earn Deals For New Authors 10/06/2008
More than 70,000 fans have read David Wong's urban fantasy John Dies at the End completely online; Thomas Dunne Books will launch a trade paperback in fall 2009 to capitalize on this viral phenomenon. John Schoenfelder bought world rights from Jeff Moores at Dunow, Carlson and Lerner. John Dies at the End is a comical horror story about two college dropouts inadvertently exposed to a drug known...
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Ike Dealt Heavy Blow To Texas Booksellers by Edward Nawotka - 10/06/2008
When Hurricane Ike hit Galveston Island, Tex., a little after midnight September 13, Tim Thompson lost his livelihood. Midsummer Books, the 2,000-sq.-ft. bookstore Thompson had owned since 2004, was completely destroyed. “We had eight feet of water in the store,” Thompson said from his temporary home in Austin.
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