Printed books are not dead. Not yet, not by a long shot. Even if 2015 comes and predictions hold that half of all books sold are eBooks, the other half… 2 / Read more »

The Washington Post brings us this report on a women’s book group that met every fourth Sunday to discuss books and to socialize. That is, until the fateful day when… 2 / Read more »

On Monday we humbly announced that a moment of profound irony cynicism was a mere five days away. We cited having a very good “reliable source” for said moment. Some… 10 / Read more »

Okay, so back in the old days, er, ten years ago, when the blogosphere wasn’t so dern crowded, MobyLives took it to Jonathan Franzen for his classist, sexist, and racist… 5 / Read more »

Hello sports fans! This just in: A Wall Street Journal report reveals the shocking news that a lot of foreigners are playing in the National Basketball Association these days and… Read more »

In a post on The Guardian (UK) book blog, Chris Cox reports on a new Arab-Israeli book club: “A groundbreaking new literary event offers new paths to understanding in what… Read more »

More excitement for HarperCollins this week as the publishing giant starts an “exclusive” book club with Sainsbury’s, one of the “big four” supermarkets in the UK. As Catherine Neilan reports… Read more »

A group of “award-winning novelists” has sent a letter to Oprah Winfrey “begging her to resume picking new novels for members of her popular book club.” As a Reuters wire… Read more »

Falling membership in the Book-of-the-Month Club did not stop falling when its owner, Bertelsman, merged its book clubs with those of Time Warner to form Bookspan; the prestigious old club… Read more »