Hot investment tip: Buy old books
Taylor Sperry
There was the Internet bubble, the housing bubble, and now, maybe, the rare book bubble. Amelia Murray reports for The Telegraph that the value of rare, first edition books has… Read more »
There was the Internet bubble, the housing bubble, and now, maybe, the rare book bubble. Amelia Murray reports for The Telegraph that the value of rare, first edition books has… Read more »
In what might be an attempt to convince people that they can actually travel to J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, Air New Zealand has released a safety video featuring the scenery and… Read more »
Lisa Campbell of The Bookseller reported yesterday that “UK books power world’s top-grossing films.” In it, she reveals that 40% of the highest-grossing films since 2001 were adaptions of novels… Read more »
Fans of J.R.R. Tolkien might know that his 1926 prose translation of Beowulf will be published by HarperCollins this week. They may also know that, in a letter to a… Read more »
PEN America recently finished a 62 day Surveillance Metaphor Mapping Project, tracking the language that journalists use most often to describe government surveillance. They looked at 133 articles, by 105… Read more »
In an article published Tuesday morning in the Guardian, Alison Flood reported that poet W.H. Auden had attempted to persuade J.R.R. Tolkien to “Drop the romance between Aragorn and Arwen… Read more »
Today is April Fools’ Day, so for the next 24 hours, be careful out there on the Internet. Every story you see should be read carefully, every headline cause for… Read more »
The Guardian reported earlier this week that a tower in England that might have inspired J.R.R. Tolkien has been sold to a charity for £1m. The tower known as Perrott’s Folly is… Read more »
The avalanche of Hobbitania has rained down upon us, complete with weird beard-braiding, the Denny’s Hobbit menu, and no less than 6 tie-in editions, activity books, movie guides, and “visual… Read more »