The Seduction of Self-Publishing, Bookstores & Librarians

The Seduction of Self-Publishing, Bookstores & Librarians

Self-publishing takes guts, hard work and innovation. Think you have what it takes? Steve Almond did and shared his self-publishing journey with the Los Angeles Times.

A bookstore is like a lady: it’s what they don’t reveal that makes them so alluring. Emil Sher shares his fascination with bookstore window displays with Open Book Toronto.

The Guardian dissects fictional aliens.

The 10 best songs about librarians and libraries. (And yes, there are more than ten songs about libraries.)

Continue this library love by voting for the best libraries in the world over at Huffington Post.

And finally, because this Books@Torontoist editor can’t let anything Ann M. Martin-related go unlinked, Flavor Wire imagines where the Baby-Sitters Club is now. A more realistic list than McSweeney’s take on the same subject, but a tad less funny.