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Amazon Launches “Book Clubs” in Beta, But Forgets to Add Any Discussion Features

11 September, 202011 September, 2020Amazon, Book Culture12 Comments

I’ve just learned about an Amazon feature that, while not exactly new, is still relatively unknown and has not been officially launched. I was browsing Dale...

Subscription Box Review: Scribbler v ScribeDelivery

12 May, 202012 May, 2020Book Culture8 Comments

If you want to give a gift to the writer in your life you might want to consider getting a subscription to a monthly subscription box...

Guess What You’ll Find in The Library of Nonhuman Books

9 March, 20209 March, 2020Book CultureOne Comment

AI has been used to write everything from poems to blog posts to books, and now it’s been put in charge of (for lack of a...

“The Casual Vacancy” Tops Goodreads’ List of Popular Abandoned Books

8 December, 20198 December, 2019Book Culture8 Comments

BoingBoing brings our attention to one of the hidden features of Goodreads. Lots of people like to use GR’s “shelves” feature to track the books they...

The Lost Art of Paste-Up (video)

16 October, 201917 October, 2019Book Culture, Books as Art5 Comments

Back before we used computers to lay out the text of a book, magazine, or newspaper, publishers used various methods to manually lay out text before...

Millennial Reading Habits Have Changed the Definition of a Classic , and Other Lazy Writing

13 August, 201813 August, 2018Book Culture, DeBunking13 Comments

Millennial-bashing is popular among the media, and this is a problem not just because it’s lazy writing but also because sometimes it distracts from what is...

“Little House on the Prairie” Author’s Name Removed from Book Award

24 June, 201824 June, 2018Book Culture21 Comments

Following several years of quiet debate, a division of the American Library Association has announced that it will be changing the name of its children book...

“New” J R R Tolkien Novel, “The Fall of Gondolin”, Is Coming Later This Year

10 April, 201810 April, 2018Book Culture, Publishing5 Comments

Terry Pratchett may have avoided ghouls robbing his literary estate after his death, but other authors were nearly as lucky. Some authors (for example, Harper Lee) were...

Why Do Publishers Still Issue Hardbacks, Given That They’re Not That Popular Anymore?

26 February, 201826 February, 2018Book Culture23 Comments

In its ongoing efforts to beat the “print books good, ebooks bad” drum, on Sunday the Guardian asked Philip Jones of The Bookseller why he thought...

Customers Won’t Pay as Much for Digital Goods, Redux

3 January, 20183 January, 2018Book Culture17 Comments

Back before Christmas the Harvard Business Review published an article on recent research that showed that people valued physical objects for the act of possession more...

What’s This Fantasy Doing in My Science Fiction epic?

18 December, 201711 October, 2018Book Culture9 Comments

There is a hard and fast rule that science fiction has science and that fantasy has magic, and thus the two genres will never be one....

The Book of My Enemy Has Been Remaindered

4 December, 20174 December, 2017Book Culture, humorLeave a comment

Editor’s Note: The following poem was written by Clive James. I haven’t been able to reach the author and secure permission for posting it here, so...

Anti-SF Bias Leads to Poorer Reading Comprehension, Study Finds

23 November, 201727 November, 2017Book Culture10 Comments

Do you know how some look down on science fiction and other genre fiction as being less serious or literary? It turns out that they might...

Who or What Are You Reading Right Now?

1 November, 20173 July, 2018Book Culture, Open Topic22 Comments

Every so often I have posted an open question asking what people are reading on, but I don’t think I have ever asked about the content you...

You’ll Need to Burn This Experimental Edition of Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451” in Order to Read It

23 October, 201711 November, 2017Book Culture2 Comments

Someone has once again missed the point of Ray Bradbury’s seminal work. Open Culture reports that a Dutch art college has created a new edition of Fahrenheit...