Comments on: What’s the -philia for books?

By: Bookmarks about Pretentious

Bookmarks about Pretentious — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:00:51 +0000

[...] – bookmarked by 3 members originally found by Herculaas on 2008-12-20 What’s the -philia for books? http://www.chrismclaren.com/blog/2008/08/21/whats-the-philia-for-books/ – bookmarked by 5 members [...]

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:39:04 +0000

Yawp, I am. And I’ve been keeping track of you via your blog (found it through Lorraine-a’-Malena’s) ’cause our paths hardly ever cross otherwise.

Small Beer Press. Noted.

By: Kira

Kira — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:08:52 +0000

Now, you know the numbers don’t work like that. If that worked to “grow” the audience by enough to justify the cost of carrying the book then the JIT ordering system would reveal that pattern. That’s part of how the icky vampire books (all of the back volumes) made it into Borders in the first place.

I think you have a better argument in asserting that publishers should pressure bookstores to carry books like the one you mention because in the long term it increases the volume of reading and helps keep publishing alive. There are lower-cost strong-arm tactics that publishers could use to do just that, such as bundling books together. Gladwell had a very good article about it, years ago.

By: Matt’s Bookosphere 8/22/08 « Enter the Octopus

Matt’s Bookosphere 8/22/08 « Enter the Octopus — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 04:12:06 +0000

[...] “I would assert that the death of the midlist (and all the associated problems for midlist wri… [...]

By: Mr. McLaren

Mr. McLaren — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:05:43 +0000

And it's a very, very good book too. Keep your eye on Small Beer Press--they put out a lot of really good stuff. Also, you wouldn't be Paul Knappenberger (sp?) who used to party with me on some of my mad road trips to Minneapolis, are you?

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:46:45 +0000

You know, I read the Washington Post review of the teen vamp novels all the way through, and at the end said ‘Well. Another series I don’t have to read. Hey, wait – Elizabeth Hand has a book I haven’t read yet? Which got an award? Excellent!’ So, thanks for the link to the article.

By: Mr. McLaren

Mr. McLaren — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:02:34 +0000

Yeah, me too.

Although I prefer to think of it as a “gentle madness”.

By: John D.

John D. — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 04:15:56 +0000

>>What’s the -philia for books?

Bibliophilia. Though I personally suffer fro Biblioholism.