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Bookish Intelligence Report
28 Jan
Our news feature, Bookish Intelligence Report has returned! Right now we’re going to be focusing on getting you a comprehensive round-up of news once a week. But that’s just to start.
And now, the news…
- Mural of books shore up a N.C. bookstore (via LA Times)
- San Antonio-area readers get a new library…devoid of a single print book (via HLN TV)
- Book swaps as cultural spur in Egypt (via Egyptian Independent)
- 10,000 book collection up for auction (via Pasadena Sun)
- Libraries are still valued, according to report (via Missoulian)
- YA keeps kids reading (via The Ledger)
- Stunning artwork carved from books (via MNN)
- Taking care of your books (via Journal Star)
- Harper Collins on the move (via MediaBistro)
- Downton Abbey fans may have a literary cousin to feast on (via Auburn Pub)
Bookish Intelligence Report
30 Dec
- Upstate New York author sees e-books as future of self publishing (via Sippican Week)
- Pledge to buy a few more book annual turns future around for Wisconsin (via Wisconsin State Journal)
- Suspicious package at library turns out to be what you’d think (via Middletown Press)
- A war horse rescued from the trenches (via Telegraph)
- Coffee table book features Himalayan wildlife (via Express India)
- Looking ahead to the year in books (via Sydney Morning Herald)
- Love of books turns into repair business (via Washington Post)
- Book moving brigade aids Riverrun Bookstore (via Boston.com)
- The best books of 2011, as read by readers in UK (via Guardian)
Bookish Intelligence Report
28 Dec- Actor’s life-long devotion to Dickens (via Telegraph)
- The value difference between old books (via TheSpec)
- Beijing’s “human library” (via Hindustan Times)
- Textbooks are dead, according to one Scottish educator (via Scotsman)
- Utah bookseller reinvents itself to stay competitive (via KSL.com)
- Coffee table book commemorates Hudson Bay Company (via Toronto Star)
- A simple list, five good books (via New Yorker)
- Child of Ezra Pound battles Italian facists (via Guardian)
Bookish Intelligence Report
23 Dec- 1o books for those who can or want to travel (via Vancouver Sun)
- Best books of 2011, another list (via Kansas City Star)
- Performing artists in books (via Kentucky.com)
- Golden Globes noms feature movies from books (via Hindustan Times)
- Rare books burned in Egypt (via Seattle PI)
- Best books from the South African perspective (via IOL)
- Secret history of 2nd hand books (via Guardian)
- Another library book Christmas tree (via Charleston Daily Mail)
- Looking back at the year in books (via Atlantic)
- In Canadian province of Alberta, book awards sure to stay local (via Edmonton Journal)
Spine Design
21 Dec- New book from Dutch architecture Rem Koolhaas (via Atlantic Cities)
- Critique of new book about Georgia O’Keeffe (via Wilamette Week)
- A series of beautiful art book recommended (via Business Week)
- Year of books about designers concludes with Diana Vreeland (via Elle UK)
- Art book ideas as gifts, it’s never too late (via Times Union)
- Review of book that chronicles art of Roman catacombs (via Blogcritics)
Bookish Intelligence Report
21 Dec- Library supporters vow to keep closed lending institution open (via Evening Standard)
- Do you agree, are these “brilliant” books of 2011 (via Telegraph)
- Overlooked sci-fi of 2011 (via Salon)
- The books of Australia (via ABC)
- Genre fiction’s little letter to its more respected cousin, literature (via Guardian)
- Xmas book choices for kids (via NJ.com)
- Text books filled with errors go to schools without check (via Washington Post)
- Will higher ebook prices drive readers back to paperbacks (via Christian Science Monitor)
- The last of the book sculptures (via Scotsman)
- Larsson partner unhappy with spin-off marketing of his books (via Hindustan Times)
Battle Rattle Books
19 Dec
- Retired postman turned military history author (via Gazette and Herald)
- Where are we with the Cold War thriller (via Salon)
- How the horrors of World War I inspired campaign to climb Mt. Everest (via LA Times)
- Creator of the iconic Captain America dies (via NY Times)
- Q&A with author of Black Hearts (via Foreign Policy)
- Review of new book, Hitler’s Ashes (via Seattle PI)
- Best movies based on John le Carre books (via Seattle Times)
- Iraq veteran picks favorite books on war and soldiering (via Huffington Post)
Bookish Intelligence Report
19 Dec- 50 Lessons of a literary life (via Guardian)
- Grading the best and worst book reviews from newspapers (via New York Daily News)
- War Horse, book versus movie (via Examiner)
- What books are on the nightstand of the GOP Presidential would-be’s (via The Daily Beast)
- Book recs for the music lover (via USA Today)
- Ian Rankin wants a special day declared for the birth of Robert Louis Stevenson (via Scotsman)
- How the movies differ than the books, Sherlock Holmes (via Minot Daily News)
- Going deep into the stacks to find the right book as gift (via Independent-South Africa)
- Book Smugglers in China (via China Daily)
- NYPL looking to sell space (via NY Times)
- California bookstore celebrates Latino culture (via Los Angeles Daily News)
Bookish Intelligence Report
16 Dec- Berlin indie booksellers make a successful splash (via DW)
- It’s a holiday showdown between brick and mortar and bytes (via The Republic)
- What’s selling like hot cakes in SoCal? (via LA Observed)
- Another small Massachusetts bookseller shutters (via Daily Hampshire Gazette)
- A UK recommendation for a winter read comes from a very American favorite (via Guardian)
- If you’re looking for a comic book boom town, it is Sacramento (via Sacramento Press)
- Opening up the Filipino e-book market (via CNET)
- Gardening books to inspire (via Cleveland.com)
- Book critics favs from 2011 (via NPR)
- New books for crafters (via Calgary Herald)
- How a bookcover states its intent, like a good pick-up artist (via Independent)
- Books snatched from Canadian family center (via CBC)
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