Posts Tagged Love
What’s Not to Love?
I love everything about the printed book. I love book jackets, how sometimes they are shiny, and slick, sometimes textured, and thick. I love when the jacket has a surprise on the inside flap, or even on its reverse side. Or when the actual book cover differs from the jacket in an unexpected way. I love end papers, and title pages, indexes, and paper edges. Sometimes they are rough, and other… times, not. I love maps, and family trees, photos, and images. I love how chapters can be arranged, and tables of contents can be framed. I like the space around the text, and the space between the lines. I like chapter headings, quotes, fonts, and footnotes. I like the author info and photo, the jacket copy, and the blurbs. It’s crazy, isn’t it? And all this before I even get to the story. And then there is the story. Books have changed my life, changed my mind, and changed my attitudes. What’s not to love?
Love an Indie #SIBA11 Membership Offer for Book Bloggers
Posted by Wanda in GiB Book Bloggers on May 6, 2011
Love an Indie #SIBA11 Membership Offer for Book Bloggers
Calling All Book Bloggers ! SIBA wants to make a trade. Place a “Find an Indie Bookstore” badge above the fold on the homepage of your website and SIBA will waive your $195 dues. Just let us know when the badge has been placed and we will mark you current. There are many benefits to membership in SIBA. Let us count the ways!
- Receive a complete contact list of all of SIBA’s member stores on demand—including contact names, email addresses, phone and mailing addresses via email.
- Three passes to the #SIBA11 Trade Show.
- Reduced prices for advertising & table rental at #SIBA11.
- Be informed. Stay in the loop. Don’t miss the numerous SIBA opportunities to connect with each other, indie booksellers, and the industry-at-large across the south.
We’re all in this together!
Steps to Love an Indie and become a member of SIBA for Free:
- Choose a badge and embed the appropriate code on your website, “above the fold.”
- Email wanda@sibaweb.com when your badge is on your site, and we will give you a free membership in SIBA ($195 value!)
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Show Your Love & Enter to Win
Posted by Wanda in Bennie and the Gets! on February 7, 2011
SIBA’s Welcome Kit & Twitter Contest!
The SIBA Welcome Kit, newly updated for 2011, is an extensive piece that outlines the many benefits of SIBA Membership. Download a copy and make sure you are getting the most out of SIBA.
Along with encouraging you to spend an afternoon exploring the ins and out of the SIBA Welcome Kit, we also want to promote the most valuable and popular benefits in a new monthly column Bennie & the Gets!
Bottom Line: Any core member who follows @SIndies and tweets the following: I read Bennie and the Gets! will be entered into a drawing for a free ALL PASS meal ticket at #SIBA11. The deadline for tweets is Valentine’s Day.
We will be hosting a Twitter Contest in every SIBA eInk between now and August, 2011.
Coming up on SIBA Circle of Sites
Posted by Wanda in Uncategorized on May 19, 2010
I love this book. It is a delightful read and inspired me to walk in my backyard in my barefeet. I love the way this book looks. It appeals to all of my senses. I love the pages and their trim. The blue bird and the map. And then the content actually delivers.
The book presents as a series of essays about practices. And though it brings all of the peace I have wanted from my many religions practices, it brings none of the nonsense that has always gotten in my way. The Practice of Wearing Skin and The Practice of Carrying Water were among my favorites. This is a book I will visit again and again and share with many. I’m so proud to have it appear on SIBA’s Circle of Sites.
Customers that love Julia Cameron or Kathleen Norris will love this book.
