• Nobel Laureate has died.
• Please shut up: why self promotion . I regretfully admit I agree with every word. We need to find ways to navigate our book-crowded world. The argument that quality will naturally float to the top no longer inspires any confidence in me.
• Ever wonder how used book sellers can sell books for a ? Your quest is at an end.
• Print sales are in the first quarter. It’s probably a blip in the graph, but we’ll take it.
• Well, well, increases the chances a book will be banned. Why am I not surprised.
• Apparently two University of Texas social psychologists have verified a previously unattributed using methods of text analysis.
• Amazon and HarperCollins , before the fight got ugly. HarperCollins gets to set its own prices, Amazon gets to provide incentives for HarperCollins to lower its prices. Everybody happie.
• Is browsing a bookstore, then buying online, a form of ? No, but nor is it an honorable thing to do.
• When 800 years old you are, look as good you will not: has been discovered in a 14th century manuscript.
• According to VIDA’s annual , although women do most of the book buying, men do most of the book reviewing.
• Finally, the . No, srsly. And by the way, do states really need an ?
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