skip to main | skip to sidebar

A Writer's Desk

Thoughts on books, readings and writings.

Thursday, January 20, 2011

How Borders Blundered

Posted by Jonathan S. at Thursday, January 20, 2011
Email ThisBlogThis!Share to XShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest
Labels: Bookstores, Videos

No comments:

Post a Comment

Newer Post Older Post Home
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Search This Blog

About Me

My photo
Jonathan S.
Seattle, Washington, United States
I am a writer living in the Pacific Northwest. I am working on a book about the Lincoln Highway. Follow me: http://thefatherroad.com/
View my complete profile
Add to Technorati Favorites

Books Published

  • Odd Harbor - E-Book Novel No Longer Available

Books Published In

  • Found II: More of the Best Lost, Tossed, and Forgotten Items from Around the World
  • Going Mutant: The Bat Boy Exposed
  • Home Brew Wind Power
  • Mountain Man Dance Moves: The McSweeney's Book of Lists
  • My Funny Major Medical
  • My Funny Valentine: America's Most Hilarious Writers Take On Love, Romance, and Other Complications
  • The McSweeney's Joke Book of Book Jokes

Magazines Published In

  • Amphora Magazine
  • BPM Magazine
  • Beer Northwest Magazine
  • Canoe and Kayak Magazine
  • City Arts
  • Coffee House Digest
  • Comedians Magazine
  • Culture: The Word on Cheese
  • Diner Journal
  • Discover America Travel Guide
  • Distinctly Northwest Magazine
  • Epitaphs Magazine
  • Fine Books and Collections Magazine
  • Forever Green
  • Geez Magazine
  • Ghettoblaster Magazine
  • Halftime Magazine
  • Idaho Magazine
  • Lexus Magazine
  • Meatpaper
  • Metro Dot Pop
  • Nevada Magazine
  • Northwest Travel Magazine
  • Parody Poetry Journal
  • Presence Magazine
  • Put an Egg on It
  • Rain Taxi Review of Books
  • Remedy Quarterly
  • SOMA Magazine
  • Seattle Business Magazine
  • Seattle Sound Magazine
  • Sip Northwest Magazine
  • Stage Directions Magazine
  • Sublime Magazine
  • Swindle Magazine
  • Touring & Tasting Magazine
  • Twins Magazine
  • Uppercase Magazine
  • Venuszine
  • Welding and Cutting Magazine

Newspapers Published In

  • Boston Globe
  • Columbia River Reader
  • Crab Cracker
  • Dallas Morning News
  • Denver Post
  • Kansas City Star
  • Los Angeles Times
  • Oklahoman
  • Olympian
  • Oregonian
  • Pike Place Market News
  • Vashon Beachcomber
  • Vashon Loop

Blogs I Contribute To

  • City Arts Magazine
  • Fine Books and Collections Magazine
  • Free Crap on the Side of the Road
  • Full Stop

Websites Published On (Music Writing)

  • Amplified
  • Boxx Magazine
  • BPM
  • Now On Tour
  • Silent Uproar
  • Sweet Fox
  • Three Imaginary Girls
  • Usounds
  • Venuszine

Websites Published In (Humor Writing)

  • Bacon Today
  • Beachwood Reporter
  • Cap'n Wacky
  • CC2K
  • Cricket Soda
  • Defenstration
  • Hobart Pulp
  • McSweeney's Internet Tendency
  • Seattle Raptor
  • Seattle Salmon
  • Yankee Potroast

Websites Published In (Misc Writings)

  • 555 Collective
  • AAA Journey Magazine
  • Aesthetic Refuge
  • CC2K
  • Earthwalkers Magazine
  • Haiku Ninjas
  • Lost Magazine
  • Pen Cap Chew Magazine
  • Poor Taste Magazine
  • Portland Fiction Project
  • Vintage Seattle
  • Word Riot

Photography Published In

  • AAA Journey Magazine
  • City Arts Magazine
  • Crappy Taxidermy
  • Fine Books and Collections Magazine
  • Northwest Travel Magazine

Magazines, Sites, and Blogs I Read Frequently

  • Atlantic
  • Bookdwarf
  • Bookninja
  • Comics Curmudgeon
  • Crosscut Seattle
  • Curious Expeditions
  • Esquire
  • Grist
  • Guardian Unlimited Books
  • Harper's Magazine
  • Largehearted Boy
  • Magazine Publishers of America
  • Media Bistro
  • Morning News
  • National Book Critics Circle Board
  • Neatorama
  • New York Times Book Section
  • New York Times Magazine
  • New Yorker
  • Newsmap
  • Onion, The
  • Slate Magazine
  • Smithsonian
  • Three Quarks Daily
  • USA Today Pop Candy
  • Vanity Fair
  • Weekly World News

Writers I Read Regularly

  • Annie Dillard
  • Bill Bryson
  • Bill McKibben
  • Darby Conley
  • Dave Barry
  • George Saunders
  • Mark Bowden
  • Matthew Yglesias
  • Nick Hornby
  • Oliver Sacks
  • Pete Dexter
  • Sarah Vowell
  • Sherman Alexie
  • Steve Martin
  • Susan Orlean
  • T.C. Boyle
  • Timothy Egan
  • Tobias Wolff

Blog Archive

  • ►  2014 (243)
    • ►  September (1)
    • ►  July (16)
    • ►  June (30)
    • ►  May (32)
    • ►  April (36)
    • ►  March (39)
    • ►  February (41)
    • ►  January (48)
  • ►  2013 (940)
    • ►  December (44)
    • ►  November (21)
    • ►  October (47)
    • ►  September (42)
    • ►  August (45)
    • ►  July (46)
    • ►  June (80)
    • ►  May (123)
    • ►  April (123)
    • ►  March (125)
    • ►  February (112)
    • ►  January (132)
  • ►  2012 (1797)
    • ►  December (126)
    • ►  November (118)
    • ►  October (141)
    • ►  September (153)
    • ►  August (167)
    • ►  July (181)
    • ►  June (188)
    • ►  May (165)
    • ►  April (143)
    • ►  March (143)
    • ►  February (135)
    • ►  January (137)
  • ▼  2011 (1753)
    • ►  December (117)
    • ►  November (130)
    • ►  October (127)
    • ►  September (137)
    • ►  August (113)
    • ►  July (148)
    • ►  June (159)
    • ►  May (171)
    • ►  April (169)
    • ►  March (174)
    • ►  February (154)
    • ▼  January (154)
      • For Places That Don't Have Libraries, There Is Hope
      • MacBeth
      • Seven Pieces on Egypt
      • Bizarro Fiction
      • Nine Word Game Apps You'll Become Addicted To
      • Babylon Revisited, Revisited
      • The Perils of Literary Profiling
      • The Magazine Illustrations of Anna Whelan Betts
      • The U.S. Rare Book Trade in 1933
      • The Book Cover Design of Peter Mendelsund
      • Better Learning Through Handwriting
      • Patti Smith: Detective Novelist
      • A Short History of Anonymous Authors
      • Six Character Diets to Get You to Your Ideal Weight
      • The 100 Volume, 10000 Page, 2 Foot Thick Book of P...
      • Revealing J.D. Salinger
      • The Art of Good Writing
      • Keith Olbermann: TV's Next Hot Comedy Writer?
      • Barnaby Conrad Revisits John Wilkes Booth
      • Alice in Wonderland: A Book Cover Odyssey
      • Trade Union Poster Design
      • I'm Readin' a Book
      • Robert Burns, a Book of Poems, and the Potential f...
      • The Hawk at the Library of Congress
      • Choose Your Own Adventure - The Movie
      • An Interview with Former Colbert Report Head Write...
      • Booksellers at Bicycle Shops
      • The Fantastic Four to Become the Terrific Three?
      • There Must Be a Better Way to Honor a Writer Than ...
      • Turn In Your Kindle...
      • Springfield Author Carries on the Legacy of Oz
      • The Arthur Conan Doyle Collection Residing in Toronto
      • The Rise of the Mark Twain Impersonator
      • Herman Melville's 25 Words for Beard
      • Mary Worth Discovers the Kindle, Or Some E-Reading...
      • A Farewell to Handwriting?
      • What if Princess Diana Had Lived?
      • The Sky is Black
      • Barnes & Noble - From Thug to Love
      • Is Reality Based Storytelling Destroying the Real ...
      • Dante's Inferno - the Short Version
      • The E-Reader Marketplace
      • Fox in Sox
      • Thrilling Comics
      • 20 Famous Authors, 20 Writing Rituals
      • Edith Wharton and the French WWI Effort
      • Literary Archives are Like Monkfish
      • Madeline, the Lobbyist
      • The Sylvia Plath Effect
      • Alice in Wonderland - The Ballet
      • Confessions of a Book Fiend
      • Hideous Fonts May Boost Reading Comprehension
      • Library Clears Its Shelves in Protest
      • Free H.P. Lovecraft Documentary
      • The Best Novels on Newspaper Journalism
      • How Borders Blundered
      • Just in Time, or a Short History of Production
      • Are Vooks the Future of Book Publishing?
      • What's the Story Behind Genre Fiction's Covers?
      • The 8.5 Million Dollar Used Book Investment
      • How Authors Move Their Own Merchandise
      • Top Ten Dead Bodies in Literature
      • The Monkeys You Ordered
      • "Hello, Novel. Meet the Internet."
      • The Worst Sentence Ever Published in the English L...
      • Comics Stripped
      • Neal Cassady: Drug-taker, Bigamist, Family Man
      • Matt Taibbi Interviewed
      • Joseph Conrad's Sci-Fi Novel
      • The Karma Bum
      • "A Wrinkle in TIme" in 90 Seconds
      • Who Started All This "Great American Novel" Busine...
      • The Best Beards on Writers
      • The LA Times Has Coffee with Thomas Pynchon
      • The JFK Library - Online
      • Case Closed
      • How's Good Ol' Book Reading Going in Korea?
      • Fight Club - The Musical
      • Why We Buy Books Online (And Why We Don't)
      • "Danger," an Essay about Writing
      • Appalachian Spring: From Page to Screen
      • Antidotes to Political Alienation
      • "Wicked" - The Miniseries
      • The Many Lives of the Green Hornet
      • Tom the Dancing Bug
      • The Process for An Object of Beauty
      • Muckraking Books
      • Did You Read?
      • Dear Marlon Brando,
      • New Comic Hero Makes Headlines
      • On the Origins of Moby-Dick
      • Famous Authors' Last Words
      • The Secret Stories of Book Inscriptions
      • Fontastic Job
      • The Alphabet
      • Steve Jobs + Rupert Murdoch =
      • Did a Canadian Professor Solve a Mona Lisa Mystery?
      • Your Birthday Books
      • 11 Excellent Novels That Take Place in One Day
      • Libraries of the Rich and Famous
  • ►  2010 (1561)
    • ►  December (169)
    • ►  November (173)
    • ►  October (191)
    • ►  September (138)
    • ►  August (122)
    • ►  July (143)
    • ►  June (115)
    • ►  May (112)
    • ►  April (105)
    • ►  March (104)
    • ►  February (99)
    • ►  January (90)
  • ►  2009 (951)
    • ►  December (87)
    • ►  November (85)
    • ►  October (72)
    • ►  September (74)
    • ►  August (74)
    • ►  July (93)
    • ►  June (72)
    • ►  May (79)
    • ►  April (81)
    • ►  March (87)
    • ►  February (66)
    • ►  January (81)
  • ►  2008 (826)
    • ►  December (86)
    • ►  November (62)
    • ►  October (55)
    • ►  September (73)
    • ►  August (67)
    • ►  July (83)
    • ►  June (70)
    • ►  May (60)
    • ►  April (72)
    • ►  March (74)
    • ►  February (45)
    • ►  January (79)
  • ►  2007 (256)
    • ►  December (48)
    • ►  November (44)
    • ►  October (41)
    • ►  September (28)
    • ►  August (41)
    • ►  July (26)
    • ►  June (24)
    • ►  May (4)