Update Announcements by Craig Stark #157, 29 August 2011

Most of the advice or suggestions we offer at BookThink are pretty book-specific, but now and again I like to muse about more fundamental things - for example, why some people seem to have so much luck finding terrific things at sales and others have to struggle for every last thing that's even sort of good. Is it more knowledge? Better instincts? Sheer determination? Wait on that last one, if you will, because I think it depends on what you mean by determination. I'll elaborate in today's feature article, "Object Lessons in the Book Trade."

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