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Marie Arana profiles the two writers who were the “driving personalities” in the recent Google settlement with the book industry in a Washington Post blog entry that oddly absents itself… Read more »

The rumors that Barnes & Noble was going to take over ailing Borders, Inc. to form one giant two-headed love baby of American bookselling made many booksellers and publishers, independent… Read more »

Praise the Lord! With your election finally in sight, we curious Brits can look forward to having our airwaves, and indeed our brains, back. Don’t get me wrong –– I,… Read more »

Apparently, not every large institution whose charge it is to protect mother literature is giving in to the awesome super-powers of Google and selling out the old dame like a… Read more »

Book blog readership has grown exponentially and a new study says that so has the influence of blogs on book sales. The study, conducted by Jupiter Research and BuzzLogic, found… Read more »

However happy you may be with your flesh and blood partner, any obsessive reader has to admit to the odd romantic fantasy about some character in a favourite book. I’ve… Read more »

Raconteur, radio and television personality, movie actor, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Studs Terkel died at his home in Chicago on Friday at the age of 96. In an obituary by… Read more »

It’s National Write a Novel Month, a yearly affair designed to encourage all those who think they might have books in them to write 50,000 words of a novel in… Read more »

Ian McEwan is branching out. Not content with receiving innumerable plaudits for his novels, he has turned his attention to the libretto. For You, written with the composer Michael Berkeley,… Read more »