Vast theft of antiquarian books sends a shudder through a cloistered world of...
A rare books dealer thought he had gotten lucky in 2013 when he managed to acquire a 1787 French first edition — inscribed by Thomas Jefferson when he was ambassador to France... He had no idea that...
View ArticleIs social media influencing book cover design?
With 'bookstagramming' becoming a force in marketing, are designers making covers more colourful, bolder and cleaner, to stand out on our screens?...
View ArticleGaiman and Murakami shortlisted for Nobel Prize substitute
Neil Gaiman and Haruki Murakami have been shortlisted for a substitute Nobel literature prize, created by cultural figures in Sweden after the Academy, rocked by a sexual assault scandal, was forced to...
View ArticleUK bookstore Waterstones buys Foyles to defend bookshops against Amazon
UK bookstore chain Waterstones is buying the 115 year-old family-owned chain Foyles, saying the deal will help to "champion" real bookshops in the face of online rivals. The sale includes Foyles'...
View ArticleTakeover Rumors Push B&N Stock Up 16.5%
The Barnes & Noble roller-coaster ride continued last Friday, when the company's stock, which had dropped 8% the day before after another disappointing quarterly report, jumped 16.5%, to $5.30, on...
View ArticleWoodward?s 'Fear' off to a strong start with 1 million copies in print
Across the capital and around the country, booksellers reported brisk sales of Bob Woodward's Fear on its first day on the shelves. The title now has 1 million copies in print, according to its...
View ArticleLittle Women celebrates its 150th anniversary year
In celebration of its 150th anniversary year, across the USA groups are holding Little Women-themed exhibits, conferences and lectures. Penguin Classics recently published a fetching new annotated...
View ArticlePublishers Call Out Target for 'Censoring' Book Descriptions
A number of publishers, most of them university presses, are taking Target Corporation to task for redacting certain key words in the product descriptions of their books. They say the Minneapolis-based...
View ArticleNew York Review of Books editor is out amid uproar over #MeToo essay
Ian Buruma, the editor of The New York Review of Books, left his position on Wednesday amid an uproar over the magazine's publication of an essay by a disgraced Canadian radio broadcaster who had been...
View ArticleMan Booker Prize shortlist announced
Judges have unveiled their finalists for the 2018 Man Booker Prize on Thursday, whittling the prestigious fiction award's possible winners to a shortlist of just half a dozen novels: Anna...
View ArticleAmazon may open up to 3,000 AmazonGo stores in next few years
Amazon is considering opening as many as 3,000 AmazonGo cashierless stores over the next few years, Bloomberg reported yesterday, calling it "an aggressive and costly expansion that would threaten...
View ArticleCrazy Rich Asians trilogy dominates charts. Doubleday goes back to press 54...
The recent movie adaptation of Crazy Rich Asians has driven sales of all three books in the trilogy which also includesChina Rich Girlfriend and Rich People Problems. Doubleday have gone back to press...
View Article5 Under 35 honorees announced
5 Under 35 is an annual prize that honors five young and promising fiction writers, each selected by a National Book Award Winner or Finalist. This year's honorees are: Hannah Lillith Assadi, Sonora...
View ArticleDo we still need Banned Books Week?
Writing in The Washington Post, Ron Charles asks if we still need Banned Books Week? He concludes: Far from it being dated, James LaRue (from the Office for Intellectual Freedom at the American Library...
View Article7 characters that didn't make it into the Harry Potter books
Harry Potter fans will enjoy Mental Floss'"7 Characters That Didn't Make It Into the Harry Potter Books" including a Weasley cousin in Slytherin, a younger sister for Hermione and an eccentric witch,...
View ArticleGuilty verdict for man at center of Nobel Prize in Literature scandal
Jean-Claude Arnault, the man at the center of a scandal that led to the cancellation of this year's Nobel Prize in Literature, has been found guilty of rape and sentenced to two years in prison by a...
View ArticleAmazon boosts minimum wage to $15 for all workers following criticism
Amazon.com announced Tuesday that it will raise its minimum wage to $15 an hour for all employees, a move that comes after the tech giant faced harsh criticism for how much it pays its workers. The pay...
View ArticleSix of this year's 25 MacArthur "genius grant" winners are writers or...
Among the 25 winners of the 2018 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation fellowships (widely referred to as the "genius grants," which come with a no-strings-attached award of $625,000) are at...
View ArticleB&N Sets Up Process to Evaluate Purchase Offers
Barnes & Noble is setting up "a formal review process to evaluate strategic alternatives for the company," it announced yesterday. This follows what management says are "expressions of interest...
View ArticleAmazon's hourly workers lose monthly bonuses and stock awards as minimum wage...
Amazon's minimum-wage increase for its hourly workers comes with a trade-off: no more monthly bonuses and stock awards. Amazon confirmed in an email to CNBC that the company is getting rid of incentive...
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