Get dibs on the more than 50,000 books on sale from 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Thursday at the Friends of the Miami Dade Public Library book sale at the main downtown library, 101 W. Flagler St.
The sale, which also includes DVDs and CDs, is open from 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and on 1-4 p.m. Sunday, the day you can find the best bargains (though the selection may be a bit picked over by then).
Proceeds go toward programs for children and to promote literacy.
I have three books on Google Editions and preparing a fourth. Before GE, my sales were mordant. After GE, they got collective heartbeats. The advent of cheap tech is making it possible for anyone to be an author, whether or not they deserve to be because the gatekeepers, the literary agents and editors, have been removed from the equation. This democratization of book publishing supported by the twin pillar distribution channels of on- demand and eBooks are the biggest advances in publishing since Gutenberg's introduction of movable type nearly 600 years ago.
Posted by: Mr. Gumsandals | December 09, 2010 at 07:46 AM