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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...

How to Rescue a Water-Damaged Book: A Short, Handy Primer (video)

20 October, 201711 May, 2018Book Culture, Books as Art4 Comments

We all know how to use the rice trick to recover a waterlogged gadget (hint: oatmeal works better), but have you ever had to revive a...

What Are You Reading On?

12 October, 201718 October, 2017Book Culture, Open Topic51 Comments

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...

People Are Weird About Books, and Attempts to “Improve” or “Fix” Books in a Web Browser Prove it

29 September, 201718 October, 2017Book Culture13 Comments

The first thing thing you should know about reading books in a web browser is that far more developers than users are excited about the idea of...

Voting for the Fan Choice Dragon Awards Ends on 28 August

27 July, 201727 July, 2017Book CultureOne Comment

These awards have received almost no press attention, but did you know that the second-annual Dragon Awards are being voted on right now? Launched in part...

Voting for the 2017 Hugo Awards Has Closed, and the Sad Puppies Were Nowhere to be Seen

20 July, 201727 July, 2017Book Culture17 Comments

News is by definition the reporting of recent events, but sometimes it is equally important to note when an event does not occur. On Sunday, the...

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