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Powell’s, the largest independent new and used bookstore in the world, announced via press release (PDF) Tuesday that it would lay off 31 employees. The layoffs affect only unionized employees;… 1 / Read more »

What’s the appropriate response by a writer to a negative review?  In the past—in the era in-between duels and the internet—authors had few avenues for recourse. You could write a… Read more »

Designers are known for cultivating massive libraries—collections of books we dutifully drag from apartment to apartment, filling shelf after shelf with reference material, visual inspiration, favorite writers, and of course,… Read more »

“An Israeli researcher says a source for studying the Earth’s pollution history has been discovered in books — not what is written there, but the paper itself,” according to a… Read more »

Lost Bolano story to be published in the Paris Review Can indies survive in the age of eBooks? HP introduces its tablet and yes there’s already a Kindle app for… Read more »