This past Thursday, August 18, we checked out Borders at Ward Centre to check on the status of the Borders closing sale. When we visited the Hawaiiana section found on the second floor, we noticed the discount had risen to 40%! If you’re looking to get some brand new books about Hawaii, you can’t go […]
It’s time…it’s time…it’s Book End Time! Welcome to this week’s Book End, highlighting the week’s literary and library events here in Hawaii. Hawaii Book Blog is mobile! We’ve had a mobile version of the website for a couple months now, but for those of you who do a majority of your browsing on a smartphone (iPhone, Android, […]
It’s time…it’s time…it’s Book End Time! Welcome to this week’s Book End, highlighting the week’s literary and library events here in Hawaii. A Giant Sleeps Probably the biggest literary news this past week has to do with the nationwide closing of Borders. 399 stores including six still left in Hawaii will be closing its doors within […]
A few weeks ago we heard about yet another unfortunate casualty of the book publishing industry. Readers like ourselves not only suffered with the loss of a number of bookstores in the area when Borders began closing down nationwide, but a number of authors felt the sting of loss due to distribution contracts that left […]