We’ve spent this past week discussing how Portland authors, publishers, bookstores and book clubs will benefit from the new Reading Local, but now we’d like to take a few moments to tell you, the readers, the folks that make up the heart of this community, and the crew that keeps it beating, what you can [...]
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Add Your Book Blog to Reading Local: Portland!
Are you interested in attracting more readers to your Portland “book blog?” If so, you can now feature excerpts of your posts directly on Reading Local: Portland, with readers directed to your blog for the full post. These excerpts will get prominent billing right along with RLP’s main content. In order to not overwhelm the [...]
eBooks Are Taking Over, and That's Okay
Celeste offers a compelling case for eBooks over on Reading Local: Baltimore: I am a devoted reader and book person, not a technophile, and I love ebooks. I started reading them on my Palm Pilot years ago, and I’m still reading them there when I can get them in the right format for the right [...]
Tiny Heroes and Grrlbibliophile: Two Must Read Portland Book Blogs
Yesterday I added two blogs to the Portland Book Blog roll, and since you probably aren’t religiously checking the blogroll for new entrants I wanted to spotlight them real quick so you could be sure to check them out. The first is Tiny Heroes, an entertaining and informative blog that features “comic book and movie [...]
In Case You Missed It: Highlights From The Past Week on RLP
The one thing about a blog is that with each new post added, the great content that came before it gets lost in the shuffle. So in an effort to bring some of that great content back to the forefront, and to help make things easier for the casual reader, each Sunday we highlight some [...]
Short Stories: Portland Lit Around the Web
Every Saturday we will bring you links to articles from around the web featuring members of Portland’s lit community. Please feel free to pass along any you come across as well, by emailing us at portland@readinglocal.com, and we will include them in next week’s edition of Short Stories. Greg Rucka talks about the creation of [...]
In Case You Missed It: Highlights From The Past Week on RLP
The one thing about a blog is that with each new post added, the great content that came before it gets lost in the shuffle. So in an effort to bring some of that great content back to the forefront, and to help make things easier for the casual reader, each Sunday we highlight some [...]
Short Stories: Portland Lit Around the Web
Every Saturday we will bring you links to articles from around the web featuring members of Portland’s lit community. Please feel free to pass along any you come across as well, by emailing us at portland@readinglocal.com, and we will include them in next week’s edition of Short Stories. Floating World Comics owner Jason Leivian interviews [...]
Pinball Publishing + Ooligan Press = Beautiful and Sustainable Bookmarks
One of my favorite blogs to check in on periodically is Pinball Publishing’s Coin-Op, as its a wonderful combination of photographs featuring the beautiful work coming off their presses and the story behind it. In one of their recent “Hot of The Press” posts they featured chipboard bookmarks they printed up for Ooligan Press, that [...]
Meet The Lake Oswego Natives Behind Out of Print Clothing
Rebecca Robinson has a great interview with the co-founders of Out of Print Clothing, a company that lives by the motto “Books on shirts. Shirts on a mission.” Those co-founders, Todd Lawton and Jeffrey LeBlanc, met as 2nd Graders at Lake Oswego’s Westridge Elementary School, and are now helping to promote literacy by working with [...]
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