Publishers Weekly has named Vroman’s in Pasadena, Southern California’s oldest and biggest bookstore, as Bookseller of the Year. Read more and add your comment at the Vroman’s blog.
In other bookstore news: Cody’s has a new home in downtown Berkeley … The San Francisco State University Bookstore now partners with Eco-Libris and invites customers to plant [...]
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Treasures from the East
This week UC Berkeley opened the $46 million C.V. Starr East Asian Library. Its vast collection includes: Ancient Chinese oracle bones inscribed with pictographs that evolved into Chinese writing. Thousand-year-old Chinese books printed by woodblock, centuries before Gutenberg. More than two thousand historic Japanese maps said to be the most comprehensive outside of Japan. An [...]
Art books great and small
German publisher Benedikt Taschen moves beyond Beverly Hills to open a new bookstore in New York.
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Treasures from the East
This week UC Berkeley opened the $46 million C.V. Starr East Asian Library. Its vast collection includes: Ancient Chinese oracle bones inscribed with pictographs that evolved into Chinese writing. Thousand-year-old Chinese books printed by woodblock, centuries before Gutenberg. More than two thousand historic Japanese maps said to be the most comprehensive outside of Japan. An [...]
Art books great and small
German publisher Benedikt Taschen moves beyond Beverly Hills to open a new bookstore in New York.
Meet the authors of the California Authors Directory. Visit the directory to discover writers like Christina Meldrum, a Bay Area attorney whose book Madapple was just released this month. “In debut novelist Christina Meldrum's mesmerizing literary mystery, 
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