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quote 2014-03-04 20:48
"To reiterate: Amazon is not your friend. Its job is not to be your friend."

The quote comes from this post, "Diversify Your Publishing." by Chuck Wending. I thought the piece would be of interest to some folks here, especially those of you who are "small" authors. Click the link to read the full post. By the way, the quote, applies to pretty much anyone who interacts with Amazon somehow, whether authors, readers, librarians, publishers, so on.

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review 2014-03-04 17:26
"I have no feeling of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my books have unlimited patience. They will wait for me till the end of my days" (255).
The Library at Night - Alberto Manguel

The quote comes from the book The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel. I have posted my review to my blog, The Itinerant Librarian. Simply click the link to read the full review. I can tell you right now this is probably one of the nicest books I have read so far this year.

 

Link to review: http://itinerantlibrarian.blogspot.com/2014/03/booknote-library-at-night.html

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quote 2013-10-14 23:36
"Well-meaning adults can easily destroy a child's love of reading: stop them reading what they enjoy, or give them worthy-but-dull books that you like, the 21st Century equivalents of Victorian 'improving' literature. You'll wind up with a generation convinced that reading is uncool and worse, unpleasant." --Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman delivering the the second annual Reading Agency lecture at the Barbican in central London.

 

Report from the BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24521225

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