I recently developed a need for buying children’s books in bulk. I found a couple sources, one great and the other not so great, and I want to share them...Continue reading
Category: Book Culture
Amazon Launches “Book Clubs” in Beta, But Forgets to Add Any Discussion Features
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 Robert’s Facebook group today...Continue reading
Guess What You’ll Find in The Library of Nonhuman Books
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 better term) a publishing...Continue reading
“The Casual Vacancy” Tops Goodreads’ List of Popular Abandoned Books
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 gave up on, and...Continue reading
Millennial Reading Habits Have Changed the Definition of a Classic , and Other Lazy Writing
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 actually going on. Quartz,...Continue reading
“Little House on the Prairie” Author’s Name Removed from Book Award
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 award. From The Guardian:...Continue reading
“New” J R R Tolkien Novel, “The Fall of Gondolin”, Is Coming Later This Year
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 still alive when the...Continue reading
Why Do Publishers Still Issue Hardbacks, Given That They’re Not That Popular Anymore?
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 print books were still...Continue reading
Customers Won’t Pay as Much for Digital Goods, Redux
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 than for the use...Continue reading
What’s This Fantasy Doing in My Science Fiction epic?
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. That is the line...Continue reading
The Book of My Enemy Has Been Remaindered
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 I will simply share...Continue reading
Anti-SF Bias Leads to Poorer Reading Comprehension, Study Finds
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 not be seeing what’s...Continue reading
Who or What Are You Reading Right Now?
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 are reading. So, readers...Continue reading
You’ll Need to Burn This Experimental Edition of Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451” in Order to Read It
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 451 that hes pages...Continue reading
What Are You Reading On?
This Thursday morning finds me sitting here, waiting for my Kindle to install the latest firmware update. I’m looking forward to the new options for sizes and boldness, but while...Continue reading