Here's what the Associated Press thought of Sarah Palin's book, which we're talking about in advance of her visit to Legacy Books in Plano. (Tickets are available starting today.) You can read The New York Times' take here. The AP...
Kyle Hall of Legacy Books sends details for people wanting to get a book autographed by Sarah Palin on Dec. 4. In short: Tickets that will enable you to buy a book go on sale tomorrow. Tickets will be required...
Former Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin will do a book signing from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Dec. 4 at Legacy Books in Plano, according to Kyle Hall, the store's director of marketing and events. It'll be strictly a signing...
The top story in the bookselling world this week is the price war among WalMart, Amazon and Target (so far) to determine who can sell books at the highest loss online. This is great news for people who buy best-sellers,...
You may not know the Rev. Scotty McClennan, but if you've read Doonesbury, you know Scotty McLennan: He's the inspiration for the Rev. Scott Sloan, the comic strip's bearded, humorously philosophical pastor-in-residence. McLennan and Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau were...
I'm embarrassed to admit that I hadn't been up to Legacy Books in Plano till this weekend, but boy-oh-boy, was it worth the drive. (I'll now schedule it with my frequent treks to Ikea, just a bit further up the...
For those of you who haven't checked out Legacy Books yet, here's a nice assortment of photos I stumbled across on Flickr from Robert Rummel-Hudson, author of Schuyler's Monster. For the record, a third person over the weekend used the...
I checked with Kyle Hall at Legacy Books this morning. He reports that computer problems were ironed out, and the store is officially open. Business writer/book reviewer Angela Shah was able to make it to last week's opening soiree and...
I described the pre-construction scene at Legacy Books earlier this week. I'm told by those who attended last night's gala that things were nicely cleaned up. But it's not quite ready for prime time. Kyle Hall, the store's director of...
It's hard to believe, but that construction scene you're looking at is scheduled to become a working bookstore by the weekend. [Update 10-24: The opening has indeed been postponed.] The eyes of Dallas-area book lovers, if not the nation's...
Legacy Books has unveiled a lineup of authors taking part in a nine-day grand opening next month. And appropriately, that list has a thick Texas accent. A special pre-opening preview takes place Oct. 29 with designer Isaac Mizrahi, who will...
Want a job at an independent bookseller? You'll probably have to get in line, as we've discussed. But if you're determined, here's the word on the Legacy Books job fair, provided by Kyle Hall, director of marketing and events: The...
You read it here first, folks: Legacy Books, a new, independent bookstore, arrives has set its opening date as Nov. 7, says Kyle Hall, the store's director of marketing and events. A grand lineup of authors is promised that weekend...
I suppose this could be a sign of hard times for English majors. Or it could be a sign of the Dallas area's hunger for a new bookstore. But a spokeswoman for Legacy Books' Teri Tanner tells me that Teri...
The biggest knock against the Dallas-area book scene in recent years has been the lack of a large, independent bookseller. Dallas has not had one since Taylor's closed in the 1990s. And recently, even smaller favorites such as Black Images...
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