Wednesday, March 22, 2006
Well we had a terrific time in Fredericton and a heap of good news for my extended family. Baharak's (my wife for those of you that don't know) father was just offered the position of assistant Dean for the computer-science dept at University of New Brunswick and on the same day her sister was accepted into law school.
Zeeba Books just donated 10 boxes of good books to St. Andrews church for their upcoming spring sale. We are very happy to support the good people there. I did a few small updates to the World Book Market site yesterday. We added a little interview with Jane Smiley as well as links to this blog and Hugh's blog (from Midtown Books - Memphis).
Neat New Books:
2 by Roald Dahl
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, beautiful hardcover $12.00
Danny the Champion of the World also a nice hardcover $12.00
...and here's a nice little pic I took of Baharak yesterday.
Zeeba Books just donated 10 boxes of good books to St. Andrews church for their upcoming spring sale. We are very happy to support the good people there. I did a few small updates to the World Book Market site yesterday. We added a little interview with Jane Smiley as well as links to this blog and Hugh's blog (from Midtown Books - Memphis).
Neat New Books:
2 by Roald Dahl
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, beautiful hardcover $12.00
Danny the Champion of the World also a nice hardcover $12.00
...and here's a nice little pic I took of Baharak yesterday.
Friday, March 17, 2006
Baharak and I are off to Fredericton, New Brunswick this weekend. Spending some time with her family. I always look forward to visiting there. Her parents are super, the food - unbeatable persian cuisine, and of course a visit to the Owl's Nest bookshop. Looking to stock up on our Golf collection. We'll be adding a link specifically to our golf book on our website later today. I'll post some photos in a few days.
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Well it has certainly been a while!
Hugh Hollowell from Midtown Books in Memphis has inspired me to get back at this. His blog is just getting off the ground but already has a crisp cool look to it. I'm still not convinced that anyone but my mother will find this interesting but who knows? The big project that I've been involved with lately is the World Book Market. In fact, I gave it it's name and designed the website. The brains behind the group though is Guy Weller of Mr. Pickwick's Fine Old Books in Australia. He had an idea to find book dealers of a certain standard, with a bit of vision on what the Internet can do for us in the future and who aren't afraid to try and create a new dynamic in bookselling, pull them together and create a new co-operative entity. Well that entity has been born. It has barely begun to crawl but surely will one day lead the pack in modern bookselling services.
We've got 8 members so far, perhaps 10 by this weekend. I can see us reaching 40+ members by the end of the year. So far it's been a blast and I am very much looking forward to it's growth and maturity.
Check out the site and feel free to leave some comments or shoot me an email if you have any questions about the group.
Hugh Hollowell from Midtown Books in Memphis has inspired me to get back at this. His blog is just getting off the ground but already has a crisp cool look to it. I'm still not convinced that anyone but my mother will find this interesting but who knows? The big project that I've been involved with lately is the World Book Market. In fact, I gave it it's name and designed the website. The brains behind the group though is Guy Weller of Mr. Pickwick's Fine Old Books in Australia. He had an idea to find book dealers of a certain standard, with a bit of vision on what the Internet can do for us in the future and who aren't afraid to try and create a new dynamic in bookselling, pull them together and create a new co-operative entity. Well that entity has been born. It has barely begun to crawl but surely will one day lead the pack in modern bookselling services.
We've got 8 members so far, perhaps 10 by this weekend. I can see us reaching 40+ members by the end of the year. So far it's been a blast and I am very much looking forward to it's growth and maturity.
Check out the site and feel free to leave some comments or shoot me an email if you have any questions about the group.
