Dealers & Stores

Bad Buyer Behaviour
Customers of a store that sells “antiquities, notable books and rare maps” have apparently been getting a bit out of line, the Wisconsin State Journal reports. The store’s proprietor, John Taylor, ended up posting a note, Martin Luther style, to… »
Posted on Tuesday, November 4, 2008 at 3:41 PM
Categories: Dealers & Stores
Map Store Declares Bankruptcy, Closes
A map store in Tampa Bay declared bankruptcy; MAPSource, the last map store in the area, closed its three stores and printing plant. The owner cited “a definite malaise in the map industry as a whole” and the rise of… »
Posted on Thursday, February 14, 2008 at 8:57 PM
Categories: Dealers & Stores
Philip Burden and The Mapping of North America
British map dealer Philip Burden — his company is Clive A. Burden Ltd., named for his late father — is in the U.S. on a book tour; the second volume of his massive (and expensive!) bibliographic reference, The Mapping of… »
Posted on Friday, April 27, 2007 at 10:35 AM
Categories: Antique Maps, Books, Dealers & Stores
Garmin Store Opening in Chicago
Engadget covers this weekend’s opening of Garmin’s flagship retail store in Chicago, with plenty of photos to stimulate those who would find an upscale store dedicated to GPS products stimulating. Also points to Garmin’s corporate blog, which I don’t think… »
Posted on Sunday, November 12, 2006 at 9:12 PM
Categories: Blogs, Dealers & Stores, GPS
Maps.com’s Print-on-Demand Map Marketplace
Maps.com has launched a print-on-demand map marketplace called, naturally enough, Map Marketplace, which allows independent cartographers to submit and list their maps for sale on Maps.com’s site. The press release describes the venture as “a Cafepress.com for the mapping industry”… »
Posted on Saturday, September 16, 2006 at 10:16 PM
Categories: Dealers & Stores
Japanese Value-Added Maps
Japanese map publishers are responding to the challenge of car navigation systems by shifting their focus to so-called “value-added maps,” the Asahi Shimbun reports in a profile of Maruzen, a Tokyo bookstore with a large map section. According to [Jinbun-sha… »
Posted on Monday, May 22, 2006 at 9:32 AM
Categories: Dealers & Stores, Publishers
California Map and Travel Center Closing
Gadling reports that Santa Monica’s California Map and Travel Center, a travel bookstore that also stocks “a large selection of globes and a truly outstanding selection of maps,” is going out of business; the final closing date is May 31…. »
Posted on Tuesday, April 25, 2006 at 9:32 AM
Categories: Dealers & Stores
Map History Latest News; Arader Buys a Map
Our friend Tony Campbell has added a Latest News page to his awe-inspiring Map History/History of Cartography site, where he plans to bring news items to our attention. (Let the duel of Google Alerts commence!) Anyway, he’s just started, but… »
Posted on Sunday, November 20, 2005 at 3:12 PM
Categories: Collecting, Dealers & Stores
Odyssey Map Store Profile
The author takes a while to get to the point, but today’s Indianapolis Star takes a look at the Odyssey Map Store, which apparently is the only dedicated map store in Indiana. No web site that I’ve been able to… »
Posted on Sunday, November 6, 2005 at 10:38 AM
Categories: Dealers & Stores
Ralph Salomon Profiled, Opens Gallery
Today’s Journal News runs a profile of map dealer Ralph Salomon, who, after five years of running his web-site- and trade-show-based business out of his home, is opening a by-appointment gallery in North Salem, New York on Saturday…. »
Posted on Thursday, October 20, 2005 at 8:57 AM
Categories: Dealers & Stores
Jack Joyce Profile Focuses on Mapmaking
The Georgia Straight, Vancouver’s alternative paper, has a profile of Jack Joyce, who runs International Travel Maps and Books, a map store with a publishing arm. The article focuses exclusively on the latter, and, more specifically, on how maps are… »
Posted on Friday, August 26, 2005 at 9:00 AM
Categories: Cartography, Dealers & Stores
Wide World of Maps Profile
If you’re curious about what goes on behind the scenes at map stores, today’s edition of the Arizona Republic has a story about the growth of a Phoenix-area chain — that’s right, chain — of stores, Wide World of Maps…. »
Posted on Thursday, October 14, 2004 at 8:56 AM
Categories: Dealers & Stores

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