It's like getting paid to do BAMOF

Amazon has a bookstore blog now, which is new to me at least. Being Amazon they can get some nice interviews like this one with the author of The Places in Between. The downside of being in retail is that you have to be careful not to offend your supplier (the book publishers in this case.) The tone of the blog is non-shill so that makes me happy. They do take advantage of the fact that they are the bookseller in pieces like this, where they list available out of print cookbooks that were mentioned in a NYT piece. There are a lot of good topical posts like this one which lists terrorist books to check out when news came of Zarqawi's death. So yeah, I'm envious.