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by SB Sarah | February 24, 2012 | Friday at 12:01 pm | 21 CommentsLet's travel! First stop: all of the world's most beautiful bookstores. I think a world tour is in order!
Thanks to Daisy for the link.
Publisher Barney Rosset died this week at age 89. His obituary is truly amazing: he published titles like Lady Chatterley's Lover in the US and defied censors to do so.
He defied censors in the 1960s by publishing D. H. Lawrence’s “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” and Henry Miller’s “Tropic of Cancer,” ultimately winning legal victories that opened the door to sexually provocative language and subject matter in literature published in the United States. He did the same thing on movie screens by importing the sexually frank Swedish film “I Am Curious (Yellow).”
Mr. Rosset called Grove “a breach in the dam of American Puritanism.”
Beyond being sued scores of times, he received death threats. Grove’s office in Greenwich Village was bombed.
In 2008 the National Book Foundation honored him as “a tenacious champion for writers who were struggling to be read in America.”
Other mentions were less lofty. Life magazine in 1969 titled an article about him “The Old Smut Peddler.” That same year a cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post showed him climbing out of a sewer.
Graceful curtsey to Tablet magazine for the link to the obit.
MORE STATS. NetGalley's Follow the Reader blog has the results of the NetGalley survey of over 1200 librarians and their adoption of digital reading devices.
The results indicate that 59% of the librarians surveyed use NetGalley to find titles to order in their libraries, and to find books for patrons. They find titles from trade publications and word of mouth, with direct publisher outreach coming in 3rd and publisher catalogs 4th.
Meanwhile, four out of five dentists still agree, but I'm not sure what they agree on.
From Brittney - a restaurant to visit! At The Village Anchor in Louisville KY, they bring your check inside a romance novel! Have a look:
That is awesome - we must all go for dinner. Together. All at once.
This is perfect - we'll stop there on our tour of all the beautiful bookstores in the world.
And finally: stuff on sale!
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Making Waves by Tawna Fenske * $1.79 * A | BN | K | S (SB Review: B)
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Her Husband's Harlot by Grace Callaway * 14.08 Pre-order * A | BN | K | S
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Flat Out Sexy by Erin McCarthy * $3.99 * A | BN | K | S
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Marked by PC Cast and Kristin Cast * $2.99 * A | BN | K | S
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Cheri on Top by Susan Donovan * $2.99 * A | BN | K | S
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Midnight Sins by Lora Leigh * $2.99 * A | BN | K | S
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Smooth Talking Stranger by Lisa Kleypas * $2.99 * A | BN | K | S
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I'll Be Slaying You by Cynthia Eden * $2.99 * A | BN | K | S
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Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews * $4.99 * A | BN | K | S
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Some Girls Bite by Chloe Neill * $4.99 * A | BN | K | S
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Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman * $2.99 * A | BN | K | S
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The Sweethearts' Knitting Club by Lori Wilde * $0.99 * A | BN | K | S
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My Fair Mistress by Tracy Anne Warren * $4.99 * A | BN | K | S
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Her Only Desire by Gaelen Foley * $4.99 * A | BN | K | S
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Perfect Timing by Jill Mansel * $1.99 * A | BN | K | S
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Millie's Fling by Jill Mansel * $1.99 * A | BN | K | S
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Take a Chance on Me by Jill Mansel * $1.99 * A | BN | K | S
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An Offer You Can't Refuse by Jill Mansel * $1.99 * A | BN | K | S
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Staying at Daisy's by Jill Mansel * $1.99 * A | BN | K | S
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Miranda's Big Mistake by Jill Mansel * $1.99 * A | BN | K | S
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Rumor Has it by Jill Mansel * $1.99 * A | BN | K | S
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Reno's Chance by Lora Leigh * $1.99 * A | BN | K | S
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Tropical Heat by Cherry Adair * $1.99 * A | BN | K | S
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A Night to Remember by Celeste Bradley and Susan Donovan * $1.99 * A | BN | K | S
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The Amaranth Enchantment by Julie Berry * $4.88 * A | BN | K | S
- Dark Swan Bundle: Storm Born, Thorn Queen, Iron Crowned & Shadow Heir by Richelle Mead * $9.99 * A | BN | K | S
And coupons!
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Kobobooks.com
Coupon code thankyou2012 should work for 35% off and c4auto40 should work for 40%, exp. 2/25/12.
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A Carina Press coupon: get 15% off your order with code EX15CPB. Exp 2/29/12.
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Amazon one-click buy bundle: eight Harlequin Presents novels from November 2008 for $4.10.
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Amazon one-click buy bundle: six Harlequin Blaze novels from December 2008 for $3.70, and six Harlequin Blaze novels from Dec. 2009 for $3.70 as well.
Filed: General Bitching, The Link-O-Lator
Tagged: romance, awesomesauce
