Book Culture

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: The board of the [Read More ...]

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 being published. (Yes, this [Read More ...]

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 of said [Read More ...]

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 that divides the genres, but as Noah Berlatsky [Read More ...]

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 actually in front of them. New research [Read More ...]

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 making a digital book look just like a print book. I [Read More ...]

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 as a reaction to admissions that the Hugos [Read More ...]

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 voting period for the 2017 Hugo Awards ended. [Read More ...]