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Places to Go for Info on Books and Publishing

A Traveler’s Library, is after all about Travel AND Books, so some of the sites listed on my blogroll have to do with books–books about everything–not just travel. For those interested in books and the publishing business, here are three sites.

ABE (American Book Exchange) stocks all those out-of-print, used, and collector’s editions books that are hard to find elsewhere. So this is a fun place to browse. However, they also have one of the pithiest and most entertaining blogs I have seen anywhere. Most expensive books, most surprising, updates on book awards– it is all here.

Bookstores tells you where you can find bookstores abroad to feed your reading habit while you are traveling. This is a recent addition to my blogroll, after I landed on it while exploring another blog. A wonderful recent post talks about leading book fairs in Europe. I’m a little afraid of visiting a place that offers 7000 publishers in one place, as Frankfurt does. I might have a total reading addict meltdown.

Writers and Editors Pat McNees provides a home on the Internet where writers and editors can connect. This site has links to anything you can think of that has to do with books and publishing.

Where do YOU like to get news about book publishing?  Please share your information in the comments section. We’re listening.

And if you are looking for more good stuff to read at A Traveler’s Library, here’s a good place to start: 10 Posts from First 100.

What is a Travel Book?

ANNOUNCEMENT: April 29, 2010. Sorry, I have just learned that Jess Haberman’s blog no longer exists, taking my timeless words with it!

I am asking my readers to take a little journey today over to Jess Haberman’s blog about books and publishing. There you will find me holding forth about my favorite topic of books and travel at her blog called Book Publishing. Where do you find travel books in the store? Who edits them? What IS a travel book?

Come back tomorrow for a review of what Rolf Potts and Tom Miller had to say about travel writing at the Tucson Festival of Books this past weekend.

And if you are looking for a way to celebrate St. Patrick’s day tomorrow, here’s some reading matter on the Blasket Islands (at Info Ireland), a tour of Irish pubs, and an old book about the Beara peninsula.