Friday Five: Staff Favorites

Anna's Five Faves (they make up a very motley crew indeed):

Wired.com: wired.com is a daily technology news website where you can read about everything that's happening in our wired world.

http://www.mentalfloss.com/: The digital home of Mental_Floss magazine, mentalfloss.com shares a myriad of interesting tidbits, trivia, links, and more. While much of the content is not book-related (though very interesting indeed!), each Wednesday they post "At the Library," a weekly roundup of book-related links.

http://www.toprankblog.com/: The blog of online marketing guru Lee Odden and TopRank Online Marketing, toprankblog.com is a great way to keep up on what's happening in the online marketing world.

http://www.bookweb.org/indiebound/booksellers.html: From the American Booksellers Association (ABA) and IndieBound, this site is a great compendium of IndieBound resources for booksellers.

http://www.midwestbooksellers.org/: The online home of the Midwest Booksellers Association,  a regional not-for-profit trade association formally established in 1981 to promote retail bookselling and support professional independent booksellers throughout the Midwest region.

Bonus link: http://www.publishers.org/: The Association of American Publishers, the trade association for the U.S. book publishers.

Christy's Five Faves:
http://blogs.publishersweekly.com/blogs/shelftalker/

http://bookshopblog.com/

http://pazbookbiz.com/book-biz-blog/

http://news.bookweb.org/omnibus This is the blog on the ABA website