Posted on January 9, 2008 by Michael Carney
According to Anirvan Chatterjee, founder of book search engine BookFinder.com, “From 98 to 99 percent of all books ever published are now out-of-print, so they don’t show up in traditional bestseller lists. Without big marketing budgets behind them, these books have been getting buzz the old-fashioned way: reader word of mouth.”
BookFinder.com to the rescue, with [...]
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Posted on January 5, 2008 by Michael Carney
Our fixation with listing continues, this time with Auckland City Libraries’ recitation of their 100 most loaned books of the year just gone.
You can scan the whole 100 by clicking here, but we’ll save you a little time and effort by telling you what we gleaned:
All 100 titles are fiction, and almost all are popular [...]
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Posted on January 3, 2008 by Michael Carney
Try not to salivate as we share with you a list of the top book/manuscript/printed ephemera sales of 2007, as collated by the Americana Exchange, which “tracks sales at all of the large, and many other auction houses, some 140+ in all”. Included in this list are books, manuscripts, and related ephemeral items. And all values [...]
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Posted on January 1, 2008 by Michael Carney
Trade Me’s booksellers are kicking up a stir on the Message Boards with a thread entitled “Books: Non Fiction NZ.Category removed. WHY?”
The essence of their complaint: that the Books>Non-Fiction>New Zealand category was removed without consultation or advance notice, the week before Christmas.
Some of the heartfelt pleas to Trade Me on the subject, via the Message [...]
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