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Boston Book Fair & Sylvia Plath on Kindle

This weekend (11-13 November 2011) is the 35th Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair to be held as usual at the Hynes Convention Center. As usual I will walk around and obsess and drool over all things Plath and report back back books, prices and what not. Hopefully will score some photographs, too, to share with you. Read about the fair in 2010 here. And I did two posts in 2008: the first and the second... The blog over at the valuable Fine Books & Collections also has a preview and Plath made the list of neat items to see.

Unrelated to the Boston Book Fair...US readers will finally have a new Kindle option of a Sylvia Plath book. The Colossus will be released in Kindle format on 23 November. Let’s hope this is the first step is allowing electronic access to Plath’s works to this market. The book will be published via Random House Digital, Inc.

Again, if you are interested in helping to make Plath's books available through Kindle, you can have your say. Please read the last bit of this post from January.
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  1. Melanie Smith09 November, 2011 15:42

    I think Jonkers books will have their beautiful 1963 Bell Jar there. Waiting to share your vicarious book tales.

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  2. Melanie Smith09 November, 2011 15:43

    I think Jonkers books will have their beautiful 1963 Bell Jar there. Waiting to share your vicarious book tales.

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  3. Peter K Steinberg10 November, 2011 11:15

    Melanie - I'll let you know how pretty it is in person! It's dizzying when you first walk in; it's like a rare book/special collections library but one in which there are open stacks.

    pks

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