According to Publisher's Weekly (or marketing facts), Amazon, unlike the rest of the world, has been making money. It would appear that...

It's sort of coincidental that I found these three things in the last week, but they all tied together in my head and warranted a couple...

This entry is perhaps premature, but interesting nonetheless. Neil Gaiman , well-known author and fantasy genius, posted this in his journal...

I think I've mentioned already that I quite admire Mr. George Orwell as an author. I may have also mentioned in the past that the oh-so-...

I hate returning unfinished books to the library. There's something so pathetic to it. Not only is this a monumental failure, but I'...

...so please. Stop sucking. I've read a couple of vampire books in my lifetime (mostly Amelia Atwater-Rhodes) and have watched a couple ...

Some of my favorite places in the world are bookstores. One place it's always a joy to see a small bookstore packed away is at airport g...

*Mild profanity warning In a review of the book "The Forever War" (as of yet unread... hopefully that will change soon) by Dexter...

ARCs - Advance Reader Copies - are the subject of the latest, greatest discussion I stumbled upon on the Amazon.com forum today. I was revie...

Publisher's Weekly - oh, yes, that's that... magazine, right? The one that always has excerpts from its reviews on the back of books...

Turns out the U.S. is ranked no. 20 in world literacy (and is among 30 countries ranked as such), with a 99% literacy rate. We should be hap...

So sure, exaggerations are abound on all sides. Obviously not all not-readers are anti-books, or even anti-reading as an idea. But let's...

Everyone knows one. Sometimes I'll be reading a book and these people (type of person) will come up and say, proudly, that they've n...

First of all, I'm really happy I told myself to look for more Orwell books once I'd exhausted "1984" and "Animal Farm...

We enter a to-be common realm: Amazon reviewers. A few months ago, I read "The Black Book" by Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk . It ...

“The written word is dead.” Too often have these idiotic words been stated. It’s simple, really. New generations bring new inventions. Rad...

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