Archive for April, 2012


The Quotable Walt Disney: People Make Dreams Reality

John Kremer, Book Marketing Consultant

Great advice for any bookseller: You can dream, create, design and build the most wonderful place in the world, but it requires people to make the dream a reality. – Walt Disney Related Articles: Tom Hanks May Play Walt Disney in Mary Poppins Film ‘Saving Mr … – ‘Saving Mr. Banks’, an upcoming film about [...]

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Top 700 BookstoresTop 700 Independent Bookstores Data Files — This list started out as 500, then 600, then 700, and now over 750 top general interest bookstores. It includes names of the book buyers and event coordinators, address, phone, fax, email, website, and other information about each bookstore.

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Kurt Vonnegut: Books Are Sacred to Free Men

Here is something to consider (from a letter written by Kurt Vonnegut in 1973): Perhaps you will learn from this that books are sacred to free men for very good reasons, and that wars have been fought against nations which hate books and burn them. If you are an American, you must allow all ideas [...]

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Reading Is Cool Again!

“Reading has become cool again, and more people are interested. “The challenge is getting them into your store to buy an actual book.” – Emily Gatlin of Reed’s Gum Tree Bookstore in Tupelo, Mississippi Related Posts:Mississippi Independent Bookstores: A Great Panel

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