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The wires were on fire last night with a story headlined thusly in the Wall Street Journal: “Insane! John Malone Offers to Buy Barnes & Noble,” and with the following… Read more »

As reported yesterday, Booker International judge Carmen Callil was a vocal dissenter to Philip Roth winning the prize because “It’s as though he’s sitting on your face and you can’t breathe.”… 2 / Read more »

(UPDATE: There was an error in the original post of this story that has since been corrected. Originally it was mentioned that the two chains were Canadian, which in fact… 8 / Read more »

Gary Shteyngart has reprised his schtick as the illiterate buffoon author in a book trailer for the paperback of Super Sad True Love Story. But instead of featuring the ubiquitous… Read more »

A post on Wired.com points us to this amazing video of the University of Chicago’s new, state-of-the-art , fully automated, Joe and Rika Mansueto Library,”The building, a mammoth sunlit elliptical dome… 2 / Read more »

B&N controls 25% of ebook market Philip Roth goes home again Simon & Schuster India 3D book covers Amazon sells more ebooks than paper books eBook sales are up and… Read more »