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associated with women's and children's books and compared to a pretty woman's clothes. Nowadays, retro book jackets are all the rage. Book prizes are largely a creature of the twentieth century. They were intended to reward serious authors and encourage reading in general, but did they actually help to sell books? In his essay " The Use and Effect of Literary Prizes in the Late Twentieth Century, " Peter Strauss finds that, with the sole exception of the Gon-court Prize in France, they rarely did. The author's reputation and word of mouth were more important routes to popularity. Strauss offers a detailed look at sales of Booker Prize winners and especially Salmon Rushdie, whose novel Midnight's Children, was the first to buck the trend. Nowadays the effect of the Booker on sales is " seismic. " The eighth and final essay in the collection, " Advertising Books Online: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, " is a little different from the rest. It is not a work of historical scholarship, but an account of the online used book business written by Udo Göllmann, Manager of Sales and Accounts at AbeBooks, Europe. Göllmann believes that the great strength of the Internet is that it offers " the largest possible selection of books " to the reader. Competition and collaboration among online mediators and vendors is in constant flux. Göllmann provides a formula for business success that has allowed AbeBooks to survive, which includes an active marketing plan. One of the virtues of this collection is that the authors do not press general ideas and interpretations; instead, they limit themselves to what the evidence supports. This allows the reader to participate in the act of historical interpretation based on primary sources, but with the guidance of an expert. There may be lessons to be drawn from the history of book advertising , but the main purpose and pleasure of this book is to understand a little better what life was like in times different from our own. The one thing that remained constant was the fact that books need to be connected to readers. This concise collection of essays, each written by an experienced library administrator , presents ten management mistakes commonly made by supervisors working in academic libraries. The contributors describe errors made in communication, project management, staffing, knowledge management, program planning, change management, and developing power and influence in the campus arena. …

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&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Mistakes in Academic Library Management: Grievous Errors and How to Avoid Them.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; Ed. Jack E. Fritts, Jr. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2009. 132p. alk. paper, $50 (ISBN 9780810867444). LC2009-016939.