Only Shakespeare and the Bible have out-performed the sales of Agatha Christie, the Grand Dame of detective fiction. (According to her estate, her books have sold over four billion copies.) But,… Read more »

As our lives become busier and our screen-time perpetual, some have predicted that the short story would become the most readily-consumed literary form of the age. Now the city of… Read more »

Do you suffer from the horrors of TL; DR syndrome? If you’re interested in nonfiction books but daunted by the prospect of actually reading all those pesky words, there’s an… Read more »

You wonder sometimes why the CEOs of newly acquired businesses bother making statements about how nothing will change, why there isn’t at least some consumer trust to be gained by… Read more »

Alexis Kleinman at The Huffington Post has reported on a new program, Spritz, that holds the promise of speed reading for the masses. According to Spritz’s website, “reading is inherently time consuming… Read more »

The Guardian wants you. This week the newspaper launched Witness, an app that turns ordinary readers like you and me into valiant citizen journalists by soliciting original content in response… Read more »

I use few apps. The latest iPhone’s glamorous five rows mean little to me, since I hardly fill two on mine. Yet an app’s to blame for the fact that… Read more »

It still remains to be seen whether readers will warm to the idea of paying for digital content… Read more »

Last month, Encyclopaedia Britannica announced that its most recent edition, published in 2010, would be the final print edition of the iconic reference books. Now, as part of its move to focus… Read more »