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Agatha Christie at Home
She has sold more books than any other novelist, period. With about 4 billion sold she only trails Shakespeare and the Bible in the standings for the world’s most published book. With Agatha Christie...
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Happy Birthday to an American Classic: The Great Gatsby
The cover of the 1925 first edition F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece The Great Gatsby was published today, April 10th, in 1925. Since then the book has infiltrated almost every corner of popular...
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The Most Challenged Books in our Schools and Libraries for 2013
At first glance you might think it was a list of some of the better selling books but these are the top 10 most frequently challenged books at American libraries and schools for 2013. The list is...
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Picturing the Record Collector: Dust & Grooves by Eilon Paz
Born out of his successful website of the same name photographer Eilon Paz has now collected a healthy sampling of his portraits of record collectors from around the world in his debut book; Dust and...
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The latest in e-reading: Pay by the page at Total BooX
Total Boox is hoping to make its mark on the e-reading market by offering a new pay as you go model. Think of it as a toll both for e-books and as with most drivers these days you pay for your pass...
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The original painting of one of the most iconic book images, “The Bookworm,”...
It came to the Milwaukee Public Library in 1972 from the collection of René Von Schleinitz. It was the only item from his “significant collection of German steins, figurines and genre paintings” to go...
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Poetry in the Title
National Poetry Month continues with a title mash-up salute to ‘poetry.’ From a collection of 47 issues of Poetry Magazine, all featuring the poet Billy Collins as a contributor, to the first...
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May Day in Print
Happy International Worker’s Day! Here are two recent bookseller offerings to wet your radical appetite. First an e-list from Lorne Bair (pdf) featuring 19 choice items on the struggle: and a catalog...
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Art & Sole: Wild shoes for a good cause
“You can take me out of Manhattan, but you can’t take me out of my shoes!”- Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) Sex and the City If shoes are your thing no doubt you’ve heard of Stuart Weitzman....
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Digital Insurance: E-Book backup by Jesse England
Life in the cloud can have its consequences. Remember back in 2009 when Amazon unilaterally decided to remove copies of George Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm from customers Kindles due to a copyright...
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IKEA takes a bit out of Apple with their new ad campaign ‘bookbook’
Once in a while, something comes along that changes the way we live, a device so simple and intuitive, using it feels almost familiar. Introducing the 2015 Ikea catalog. It’s not a digital book or...
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A Five Book Birthday Salute to D.H. Lawrence
Hailed as a genius by some, labelled an out-of-fashion misogynist by others, he’s probably best known for his novels Sons and Lovers and Lady Chatterley’s Lover. But he also explored an extraordinary...
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Seattle book scene takes a big hit: Paul Constant leaves The Stranger
Paul Constant, the long time book editor and content machine for The Stranger, has announced he is leaving “Seattle’s Only Newspaper.” Following on the heels of other top writers and contributors who...
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It’s time for the ‘oddest book title of the year’ competition
Another year brings another shortlist of stunning book titles for Bookseller magazine’s annual Diagram Prize for “oddest book title of the year.” Created in 1978, with Proceedings of the Second...
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Critics choose the greatest children’s books of all time
At BBC Culture Jane Ciabattari surveyed dozens of the leading book critics around the world to find out what are the best children’s books (for ages 10 and under) ever published in English. When all...
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Osama Bin Ladin’s Bookshelf
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) has released the first batch of documents relating to the raid on the compound where they found Osama Bin Ladin. Among the documents is an...
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Click here to view the embedded video. Q: Are there any benefits to a physical encyclopedia compared to the internet or wikipedia? A: I’m pretty sure there is but no. Fine Brothers Entertainment...
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A Tale of Two Cities: Amazon opens a bookstore while Indiebound adds a ‘Buy...
Photo: Sam Machkovech Here comes the next tremor in the book universe. Amazon.com, the world's largest online bookseller, has opened it's first physical bookshop! Amazon Books has opened in Seattle's...
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Digital vs. Print: The Book Battle Rages On
As the holiday shopping season swings into full force, it’s interesting to watch people buying books. Many a wish list has everything from the latest by Stephen King to an Amazon Gift Card (an actual...
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