September 13, 2013

On Tuesday, as Apple unveiled its “wonderfully mundane” new iPhone, Barnes & Noble held its annual shareholders meeting. No new products were announced. No one liveblogged the event from a broken Nook.… Read more »

Booksellers & bookselling

Ask a bookseller---Book Court's Bonnie Chau — Melville House
Customer threatens Northshire Bookstore for displaying the Qur’an — Kait Howard
Isis Books & Gifts changes signage, dodges blind wrath of ignorant brick-throwers — Simon Reichley
Barnes & Noble takes penultimate step to exiting Queens — Liam O'Brien

Women dominate the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 list

Julia Fleischaker

In the immortal words of Annie Lennox, the sisters are doin’ it for themselves. For the first time in its eight year history, women have swept the 2013 National Book… Read more »

Fifty Shades of Grey now officially rubbish

Zeljka Marosevic

Fifty Shades of Grey. Just when we thought no more bad stuff could come out of this book: first the monstrous book sales, then the media frenzy, then the film… Read more »

Jennifer Weiner’s fight to change the NYTBR

Kirsten Reach

On September 6, The New York Times announced that it would include a short list in each issue of the book review, “close-ups of new books of interest grouped each… Read more »

Melville House Books

At shareholder meeting, Barnes & Noble states the obvious: “Look, no one’s happy with the Nook.”

Alex Shephard