I am sure you have heard the expression "offering an opinion is like peeing on yourself in a blue serge suit. It feels warm and no one knows you've do...
Daniel Krotz | Posted 09.05.2011
A recurring theme in the novels of Charles Dickens is referred to by economists as "The Victorian Compromise." Summarily, it promotes the idea that i...
guardian.co.uk | Zoe Wood | Posted 09.04.2011
Amazon acquired its rival The Book Depository yesterday in a move that industry experts warned could tighten the American company's "stranglehold" ove...
Daniel Krotz | Posted 08.22.2011
Which one among the 39,000 different Christian denominations in the world today is the genuine Christian article? In our pursuit of becoming a Christian nation "again" how will we separate the sheep from the goats?
Daniel Krotz | Posted 07.19.2011
Ever since the Reagan administration both liberal and conservative members of Congress have shared the belief, if for different reasons, that military...
GalleyCat | Maryann Yin on February 9, 2011 11:10 AM | Posted 05.25.2011
Powell's Books has laid off 31 employees. The employees worked in four different locations at the Portland bookseller....
Publishing Perspectives | Posted 05.25.2011
B&N was the bookseller whose massive expansion into superstores in the '80s and '90s was seen as the catalyst for the closure of numerous independent ...
AP | The Associated Press | Posted 05.25.2011
HARDCOVER FICTION 1. "The Inner Circle" by Brad Meltzer (Grand Central Publishing)...
Washington City Paper | Lydia DePillis | Posted 05.25.2011
Borders Books and Music is in trouble. It's not done well in the rough-and-tumble world of online bookselling, and according to the people who follow ...
publishersweekly.com | Posted 05.25.2011
Although Borders has been struggling financially for years, for the first time the book industry is openly, and in many cases actively, planning for w...
The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
With Borders Books in trouble but Barnes and Noble doing well, and with indie bookstores getting so much positive attention, it seems like so many wac...
The New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011
Book lovers, you can exhale. The printed, bound book has been given a stay of execution by an unlikely source: the design community. In this Kindle-an...
DailyFinance | SARAH WEINMAN | Posted 05.25.2011
For the nine-week holiday period ending Jan. 1, comparable store sales for Barnes & Noble's brick-and-mortar business was up 9.7% compared to last yea...
The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
For the first #WriterWednesday of the new year, amidst news of turmoil at Borders and sales records at Amazon, let's celebrate what goes on in booksto...
nytimes.com | DAN LEVIN | Posted 05.25.2011
The novel "The Persian Boy," by Mary Renault, has it all. In the West, the book, which is filled with scenes of pederasty and homosexual passion, rais...
The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
It's been a tough decade for bookstores with a record number of closings. We've done the bookstore obituaries and then we decided to celebrate the liv...
washingtonpost.com | Danielle Douglas | Posted 05.25.2011
The field of candidates vying to take over iconic independent bookstore Politics and Prose in the District is narrowing as the January deadline for bi...
AP | The Associated Press | Posted 05.25.2011
HARDCOVER FICTION 1. "Port Mortuary" by Patricia Cornwell (Putnam Adult)...
Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.25.2011
In a move to provide authors with a service their publishers have not, Amazon is making current Nielsen BookScan sales data available to authors on it...
The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
As the year comes to a close, we're all slammed with hoards of "best of" lists -- Best Books, Best Kids Books, Best Cook Books, etc. On top of that, ...
sfgate.com | Liz Hafalia / The Chronicle | Posted 05.25.2011
As president of the independent American Booksellers Association, Tucker has been working with Google on its Google Editions initiative for the past t...
GalleyCat | Jason Boog | Posted 05.25.2011
Jeff Waxman from Chicago's indie bookstore, 57th Street Books, has launched a Tumblr account called Against Amazon. MobyLives has more details: "[It ...
Dispatch | Posted 05.25.2011
After years of buying books at Narnia Children's Books in Richmond's Museum District, best friends Jill Stefanovich and Jenesse Evertson have bought t...
My Journal Courier | GREG OLSON | Posted 05.25.2011
Literati will soon have a reason to visit the Jacksonville square, thanks to a Jacksonville couple's plans to open a bookstore. Jim and Sally Nurss w...
Lonely Planet | Posted 05.25.2011
Bookshops are a traveller's best friend: they provide convenient shelter and diversion in bad weather, they're a reliable source of maps, notebooks, a...
Daniel Krotz | Posted 09.24.2011