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Late last week saw a swirl of stories about Barnes & Noble that made the company’s stock leap and fall, and leap again. It was all fired by the news… 1 / Read more »

The burning of the ancient Royal Library at Alexandria ranks among history’s greatest tragedies and depending on the era and bias of the historian “recording” its loss, blame has been… Read more »

“A former teacher is suing the Chicago public school district for more than $300,000, claiming administrators fired him in 2009 after a parent took issue with his memoir, entitled Gabriel’s… Read more »

The New York bookseller McNally Jackson here posts a fascinating list of its bestselling titles of 2011, but there’s one big surprise: the bestselling thing in the store isn’t a… Read more »

Tolkien snubbed by Nobel Jury Hocking’s $2Million Cinderella story Thanatography Why authors tweet The world’s most expensive book Edmund White: a life in writing India and eBooks Writers Guild Awards… Read more »