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Amazon.com’s siege of the over 400 independent publishers distributed by the Independent Publishers Group hasn’t been in the news much lately because there haven’t been any new developments since the… 1 / Read more »

Here’s an angle to the DOJ vs. Apple and the publishers story that you probably didn’t see coming: “To make a small dent in Apple, the Department of Justice will… Read more »

Life may be just a little easier for John than for Dexter or Xavier. New research from cognitive scientists suggests that the ease with which words can be typed on… 1 / Read more »

For those of us interested in the evolution of the written word (and who also enjoy rifling through celebrities’ personal effects), Retronaut has posted a series of letterheads from famous… Read more »

Lost first-ever film (from 1901) based on a Dickens novel found Men read men and women read, eh, books On accidentally revealing too much of yourself through the books you… 1 / Read more »