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Sunday, February 3, 2013

postheadericon Amazon spoof among indie booksellers' Christmas picks

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season includes 101 uses for a Dead Kindle with other "alternative" gift tips

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Amazon teases with a new Christmas campaign as pushing the tongue-in-cheek 101 uses for a Dead Kindle.

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Adrian Searle (no relation to the art critic of The Guardian) shows cartoons showing different ways to recycle a Kindle when it reaches the end of his life - a chastity belt, cricket box and eye patch are some suggestions. It is one of the top five songs voted by the main street booksellers, as an alternative to impact this Christmas more evident in Jamie Oliver's latest book. The books were chosen by more than 200 independent bookstores - especially - with Horologicon Mark Forsyth, a "walk" through the lost words of the English language, by a majority vote

  • 101 uses for a dead Kindle is "a bit cheeky" as an option for the holiday season, admitted Patrick Neale, co-owner of independent bookstore Jaffe and Neale and president of the Association of booksellers. "But anything that can start a conversation about Amazon is good ... We understand that our customers do not buy on Amazon, and I think she feels ashamed or embarrassed. Only hope that 'they will buy from us, too. " Second on the list of votes booksellers "alternative Christmas hit" Artemis Cooper biography writing perfect travel, Patrick Leigh Fermor, followed by the middle class and the Carol Ann Duffy poem ABC Christmas, Wenceslas. 101 Uses for a Dead Kindle finished fifth.

"When The Name of the Rose was released in paperback, had seven copies to my house on Christmas Day. Hopefully these alternatives will help with that," said Neale. "There are some books that you know sell, and obviously, supermarkets and Amazon, it will be very easy for people. This is a very good thing to dig a little deeper, make sure that people do not get 15 copies of the same thing - to show that there is a bit of variety out there it is quite a list perfect - .. has everything "



The top 10 is completed by Chris West particular history of Britain told through stamps, first class, Simon Garfield history of cartography, map, paper Sansom Ian: An Elegy, a complex by Sanna reinvention of the classic Hans Christian Andersen Annukka fir, and Charlie Connelly guide to the British climate, Bring Me Sunshine.


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