This week in textbook theft and fraud
Textbooks. They’re heavy, expensive, and omnipresent, and they’re chained to education, which makes their demand fairly inelastic. And as we’ve previously covered, this makes them a fairly attractive object of… Read more »
Everyone in Missoula is talking about Missoula
This week, Jon Krakauer’s highly-anticipated book Missoula (the bestselling author’s first since his swift exposé of Greg Mortenson in 2011), went on sale with a staggering initial print run of… Read more »
British school teaches wrong textbook for almost the entire year
If you’re like me, which is to say an American, your entire conception of the British primary and secondary education system is probably from books, movies and television. And what… Read more »
Bryn Mawr taking control of campus bookstore
In a move that Shelf Awareness aptly describes as “a reversal of the usual college bookstore trend,” Bryn Mawr College has announced that it will reclaim control of its campus… Read more »
Does a medieval medical text hold the cure for MRSA?
When the exploration of the natural sciences become a content-ready package, an interesting and exotic morsel you might hear on Radiolab or see paired with an unsourced photo on Facebook,… Read more »
The French are buying a lot of books about Islam these days
It shouldn’t, but it does, come with a depressing regularity; a society suffers a terrorist attack, and with that terror comes a new enemy, to know, to form opinions on,… Read more »
Purdue University sued for being tight-lipped on Amazon deal
Amazon’s venture into being a college bookstore has been challenged by the people whom you would expect—local, now finally, officially, truly free and religious (though not actually free, or religious, if… Read more »
This week in college textbook sales fraud, at home and abroad
Bookstores, like all businesses, are susceptible to fraud. However, all committed perpetrators of fraud know that targets like bookstores, which aren’t wildly profitable, tend to be a bit of a… Read more »
Bill Watterson, creator of “Calvin and Hobbes,” gives his biggest interview in new book
Exploring Calvin and Hobbes, an exhibition catalogue released yesterday, includes the longest published interview of Bill Watterson’s career. In 35 pages (including illustrations), Watterson reflects on the comic strip twenty… Read more »
PSA: Don’t make a sex tape at the library.
Making out in the stacks at the college library has never seemed so chaste: Canada’s CBC News reports that 2015 has seen at least two women arrested for filming and… Read more »