Alice — Mark It With a Water Stone
Jul18

Alice — Mark It With a Water Stone

    “I mark this day with a white stone.” – Lewis Carroll On a special day in the town where Lewis Carroll (aka Charles Dodgson) lived and wrote his famous fairy tale, where would an author dream of sharing her book? Where would an author want to show off her carefully selected outfit while browsing through hundreds of other books thoughtfully and tastefully displayed to complement her book event? Where...

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How Will We Read: Children’s Books?
Nov29

How Will We Read: Children’s Books?

 “In 5 years you will have an entirely new marketplace of digital reading material for young children, in all new forms” – Karen Lotz  Karen Lotz is the Group Managing Director of Walker Books Ltd., a London-based company that includes the children’s publishing companies Walker Books UK, Walker Books Australia, US based Candlewick Press, and a children’s television development unit, Walker...

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How Will We Read: In Book Chains?
Nov09

How Will We Read: In Book Chains?

 “Waterstone’s is to the British what Barnes and Noble is to Americans” – C. M. Rubin  British businessman James Daunt gave up a career on New York’s Wall Street at the end of the 1980’s to occupy the world of bookshops  —  “the kind of bookshops he would like to visit”  (shops, not stores, as Daunt likes to call them).   If you’ve ever been to one of the 6...

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