Kobo e-books in indie bookstores: one bookmonger’s impressions
In an agreement with the ABA, independent bookstores will be able to use Kobo to sell e-books and, through Ingram, e-readers in their stores.… Read more »
SLIDESHOW: Writers in underpants
On a recent afternoon, in the middle of some research for an upcoming book, I fell down a Google rabbit hole and landed on a Polish blog post with the… 1 / Read more »
Teachers’ strike shows Chicago’s divide
The Chicago teachers’ strike is now a week old. What have we learned? As usual in these cases, there are two sides to the story. Teachers insist the strike is… Read more »
Atonement for a bad book review
We’ve posted about writers criticizing other writers, but this week in The Wall Street Journal, Susan Shapiro writes about perhaps the most stinging and dreaded literary take-down: the negative review.… Read more »
Is newspaper web traffic smaller than we thought?
Has the Internet increased readership of newspapers and magazines? Until now that’s been the case made by media planners, and they seem to have had the figures to back it… Read more »
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