Top Ten Stories for 2009 Everyone’s All A-Twitter
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It’s likely that some readers just scratch their heads when they hear folks talk about Twitter and tweeting but, Village Books began regularly tweeting in 2009 and does several posts each day. Some are about events or news at the store. Others are Retweets of interesting book information we’ve come across. You can follow us on Twitter at VillageBksBham.
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Chuckanut Radio Hour Wraps Up Third Year
It’s hard to believe but we’ve been doing the Chuckanut Radio Hour for three full years and just launched our fourth in January. Guests this year included Bellingham’s own and national bestselling author Chelsea Cain, and a number of other bestselling authors, including Jim Lynch, Stephanie Kallos, Garth Stein, and Tom Robbins. The next show will be on Thursday, March 25th, at the Leopold’s Crystal Ballroom. See pg 53 for more information.
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ebooks Come to Village Books
Chuck remembers sitting in a meeting nearly a dozen years ago with publishing CEO’s and folks from the premier business consulting firm McKinsey & Company, discussing ebooks. Well, they’ve finally arrived at VB. There are a couple of ways you can get them. We now have some racks of cards in the store for ebooks (and audiobooks). You can choose a card and when it’s purchased, it’s activated. Then you easily download the ebook to your reading or listening device. You may also go to our website and click on the link for ebooks, choose a book and order and download right there.
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Whatcom Reads Has Successful Launch Village Books has been a proud participant and sponsor of the county-wide program, Whatcom Reads. We were thrilled to have Sherman Alexie as our first author for his book, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian. He spent three days doing events. Our second year just completed in February with the visit of Tobias Wolff and the county-wide reading of his book, Old School. The 2011 guest for Whatcom Reads will be Jim Lynch, author of The Highest Tide, which will be the young adult read for the year, and Border Songs, the adult title.
Sarah Becomes Store Manager As Village Books began its thirtieth year last spring we decided it was finally time to have a store manager. Looking back at what Sarah Hutton has done in the past year we wonder why we waited so long or how we survived without her. Sarah is also the store’s children’s and young adult book buyer. Continued on pg 26
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