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Category: Book Culture
Literary Hub’s “Book Marks” Wants to be the Next “Rotten Tomatoes” of Book Reviews
Literary Hub announced on Tuesday that it’s launching a book review aggregation service called Book Marks. It’s more or less Rotten Tomatoes clone, only for books. Book Marks aggregates reviews from more...Continue reading
TV Room “Wallpapered” Top to Bottom in Books
Companies like Books by the Foot have long enabled conspicuous consumption by letting people buy instant libraries which match a color, topic, theme, or subject. Now Imgur user Deece27 has...Continue reading
Is Hardcover the new Vinyl?
There has been a growing divide, ever since the Kindle revolutionized the ebook market, between two types of book lovers. On the one side we have readers who rushed into...Continue reading
Do Spoilers Ruin Stories? It’s More Complicated Than That
Depending on who you ask, spoilers are either the bane of a reader’s existence or the best thing ever. Fans will tell you that spoilers either ruin the experience or...Continue reading
BBC Relaunches Its “Get Reading” Campaign as “Love to Read”
Last November the BBC announced Get Reading, a digital and social media campaign to promote the love of books across BBC’s tv and radio shows as well as online. Now The Bookseller...Continue reading
Brooklyn English Teacher Suspended for Providing Books to Students
An award-winning veteran English teacher has been put on administrative leave in retaliation for his ongoing conflict with his high school’s curriculum decisions. From the NYPost: Todd Friedman, a 29-year...Continue reading
English Headmaster Rails Against Kids No Longer Being Forced to Read Dead White Guys
Another of those exhortations to read more dead white men and less frivolous modern trash crossed my desk this evening. Graeme Whiting, the headmaster for The Acorn School (a private...Continue reading
Publisher Has Trouble Giving Away “Mein Kampf” Blood Money
The Boston Globe reports that Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is having trouble giving away the profits from sales of an English translation of Mein Kampf. For the past 16 years HMH has been...Continue reading
Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” is Coming to Hulu – But Will the Author Be Able to See It?
Deadline Hollywood reports that Hulu has ordered a full season of The Handmaid’s Tale, with Elizabeth Moss (West Wing, MadMen) attached to star. It’s set to debut in 2017, and based...Continue reading
Robert Jordan’s “The Wheel of Time” is Coming to the Small Screen
After more than a decade of waiting, it looks the tv adaptation of Robert Jordan’s epic The Wheel of Time series is finally moving forward. Harriet McDougal, widow of author Robert Jordan, has announced...Continue reading
Think Adult Coloring Books Are “Childish” and “A Cry For Help”? Not According to CS Lewis
Whether the subject is YA, romance, or what have you, snobbishly looking down one’s nose at certain types of readers is a common past time in the book world. Now coloring book...Continue reading
Battle of Hydraulic Press v Book Ends in Pyrrhic Victory (video)
The Hydraulic Press channel is one of those examples of what happens when engineers have access to industrial equipment and too much time on their hands (see the Slingshot channel for another...Continue reading
Bookbinder Doesn’t Feel Threatened by the Kindle Oasis, and Shouldn’t
The Guardian has given a voice to an old-fashioned bookbinder, Colin Hill Urbina, who quite reasonably spends no time worrying about ereaders: This may come as a shock to the people I...Continue reading
What Are You Reading On?
This week’s news about the new Kindles has sparked discussions both here, on MobileRead Forums, and elsewhere about readers’ current ebook gadget. Many of us are looking at our current hardware and...Continue reading