Dodged a bullet

The Peanuts book editor who is deserving a little extra bonus right about now is whoever said, for this year’s April re-release of Peanuts Guide to Life, “hey, that first edition had a foreword by Bill Cosby, and he’s still popular and all, but maybe we should replace that with one by someone new.”

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Fantagraphics sale

Sorry to find this too late… this is a deal that ends Sunday at 11:59 PM Pacific, and I found out about it with less than 13 hours left to go. If you’re getting this  by email, it’s likely too late. Anyway, for each whole $50 you spend on a …

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Big World, Big Savings

I stopped by Five Below the other day. It’s a youth-targeted store chain where most of the items are $5. I was surprised to find a big pile of It’s a Big World, Charlie Brown on their books table. It’s a full-color collection of strips from 1997 (about when the Rerun …

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Costco eases out of books

Membership-based store chain Costco has announced that they are backing out of carrying books as a year-round item, the New York Times reports. Those big tables filled with stacks of best-sellers and deluxe and kid-friendly titles will instead just be dragged out for the last third of the year, for …