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Mark your calendar (The News & Observer):
SPRING BOOK SALE: The Friends of the Durham Library will host a Spring Book Sale, offering thousands of books, audio books, CDs and DVDs. Members-only evening, 4 to 7 p.m. Friday (memberships, $15, available at the door); public sale is 10 a.m. to 4Read full post Click Here Amazon accelerates its move to digital (Seattle Times):
Over the last 14 years, Amazon.com has mastered the art of getting copies of books, music and movies to customers through the mail. Now it is trying...Read full post Click Here The 2008 Design 100 (Time Magazine):
Great design is no longer reserved solely for museum-worthy products, as designers turn their attention to everything from books to artisanal food, from lighting to transportation Read full post Click Here Donations sought for Better Books Sale (The Norman Transcript):
Transcript StaffThe Friends of the Norman Library group is seeking donations of good quality used books for...Read full post Click Here Today’s library, more than just shelves of books (Sparta Expositor):
Looking for the hottest release on the bestseller list? Look no further than the White County Public Library. With more than 17,000 square feet of space, shelves are loaded with research material,Read full post Click Here Amazon Accelerates Its Move to Digital (NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance):
With the No. 1 source of music sales now an online downloading service, Amazon.com looks at the development of its digital offerings with a sense of urgency.Read full post Click Here Motorcycles and their history fueled author's lifelong passion (Fort Worth Star-Telegram):
By PAUL BOURGEOIS ARLINGTON -- Jerry Hatfield had already written 13 books about motorcycles and motorcyclists, so it was only a matter of time before he got around to Rollie Free. Rollie who? Well, Rollie Free is just about the greatest motorcyclist of all time, Hatfield says. Many would agree, among them talk-show host Jay Leno, a motorcycle collector, who wrote the foreword to Hatfield's ...Read full post Click Here The departed (Boston Globe):
When people donate their life's work to Boston University's Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center to be preserved alongside Martin Luther King Jr.'s letters or Bette Davis's scrapbooks, director Vita Paladino has one request: Print out the e-mails.Read full post Click Here TEN DAYS CALENDAR (Macon Telegraph):
FRIDAYRead full post Click Here DESIGNER OPENS BOUTIQUE AT SITE OF LEGENDARY CLUB CBGB (New York Post):
CBGB has cleaned up its act and gotten a new infusion of style - menswear designer John Varvatos launched a shop at the old site of the rock landmark over the weekend. And punk preservationists will be glad to hear that the Bowery site - which...Read full post Click Here |
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