Me and a friend spent yesterday wandering around every shop selling books we could find in town! We discussed many books that we’d read, yet to read, or were curious about. We basically went around Waterstones from A-Z looking at everything! We were glad to see a section on translated fiction, although it was tiny [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Waterstones’
An afternoon spent in a bookshop
Posted: March 11, 2012 in Books and their issuesTags: Book, bookshop, Dystopia, Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Robert C. O'Brien, Twilight, Waterstones, Z for Zachariah
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So Many Books, So Little Time
Posted: January 8, 2012 in Books and their issuesTags: Amazon Kindle, bestsellers, Book, Books, Shopping, Waterstones
Lately, choosing books to read has become a lot more difficult. Maybe it’s because I want to review every book I read for this blog and so I’m being more careful about my choices, so I seem more cultured and educated. (Although if you look at my reading list for 2011 you will see that [...]
Book Review: The Junior Officers’ Reading Club
Posted: October 27, 2011 in Book ReviewsTags: Army, Book Reviews, Books, Forces, Junior Officers' Reading Club, Memoirs, Patrick Hennessey, Reading, Soldiers, Waterstones
I have finally finished reading “The Junior Officers’ Reading Club” by Patrick Hennessey, after having started it last year (October 21st 2010, as i found that my bookmark in it was my train ticket for the day i bought it!). I’m not sure why it took me so long to read it, at first it [...]
Back to blogging and books!
Posted: August 30, 2011 in Books and their issuesTags: BBC, Book, E-book, Germany, Riot, Waterstones
Hello! I have been absent from my blog for almost a month and it feels good to be back! The dreaded dissertation has finally been completed, after many sleepless nights and very little social life! I have never been so glad to get something out of the way! Last friday i handed it in and [...]
JK Rowling launches Pottermore
Posted: June 27, 2011 in Books and their issues, Digital PublishingTags: E-book, Harry Potter, IPad, JK Rowling, Publishing, Waterstones, Website
Recently, JK Rowling unveiled her new website Pottermore.com, which offers a whole new dimension to the Harry Potter series by offering ebooks of all 7 books. It has delighted her fans, who have been waiting for the ebooks, and offers the possibility of extra stuff about the series, previously unreleased material written by Rowling. However, it [...]
2010 book sales and Waterstones news
Posted: January 5, 2011 in Books and their issuesTags: 2010, Amazon Kindle, Bookselling, HMV, HMV Group, Jamie Oliver, Stephenie Meyer, Waterstones
Happy New Year to my readers and fellow bloggers! During my usual daily visit to The Bookseller website, i discovered that Waterstones is suffering and is forced to close 20 of its stores over the year, further diminishing the amount of bookstores on our highstreets. See Waterstone’s confirms 20 store closures – on The Bookseller.com for more [...]
Ebooks: Enter the Digital Revolution
Posted: October 23, 2010 in Digital PublishingTags: Amazon, Amazon Kindle, Apple, Book, Borders, E-book, Publishing, Waterstones
As a publishing student, i find myself constantly debating with my peers over whether Digital is going to have the kind of impact on the publishing world as it did on the music world. Ebooks are popping up all over the place now, but despite all the noise in the newspapers about how Ebooks are [...]
