Indonesian author Tung Desem Waringin promoted his new book--on marketing, no less--with a novel method. He threw 100,000,000 rupiah (about $11,000) from a plane. Around 500 people assembled in a stadium below scrambled for the windfall.Details are here and here.--David E
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Books by the Foot
Is your country estate lacking a certain something? Do your friends think you're an intellectual lightweight? The good folks at bookdecor.com can help you out. They're selling antique leatherbound books--most of them written in Danish, but also in French and German--by the foot and by the yard.I'm oddly in tune with Book Decor's sales pitch. … Continue reading Books by the Foot
See for Yourself
Nam Le, author of the new short story collection The Boat, is getting a lot of good press lately. See these reviews in the Minneapolis Star Tribune and the New York Times, for example. NPR chose his book as one of its nine Summer Reads and has posted an exerpt.Le will be in our store … Continue reading See for Yourself
Musings from Magers and Quinn 