Auction of fire-resistant edition comes ahead of an expected US supreme court ruling reversing the right to abortion

Seeking a list of best business books for entrepreneurs? This article has all my recommendations. Here are 85+ best books for entrepreneurs.

From Temecula to Pasadena, people are asking me how to get rid of books. This is because I wrote about my long-overdue purge of my own shelves, which resulted in 250 books filling 10 boxes on my living room floor. “So, where did you take your boxes of perfectly good books? I have thousands,” says Cynthia Tuell of Upland. “Marie Kondo doesn’t seem to mind throwing lots of stuff away but I believe we need to reduce, reuse, recycle. Where did you recycle your books?”

Why is reading important? Reading books have so many benefits. Here are 20 benefits of reading books to children and reading yourself.

My fairytale home library dream is dead. Am I just hoarding books?

With the Rings of Power, the situation surrounding the legal adaptation rights to Tolkien's posthumous Lord of the Rings works has become something of a hornet's nest.

Tripp Mickle, a technology reporter who recently moved from The Wall Street Journal to The New York Times, is releasing a new book on Apple this week, entitled "After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul," and an adapted excerpt of the book was shared today that provides a look at the tensions between Tim Cook and Jony Ive that ultimately led to Ive's departure.

In a world too full of heartache, can I really feel this sad about a store closure? Let me check. YES. EXCUSE ME, BUT DUH. Yes, absolutely yes. It’s not even a question. Well, then. I suppose my gut is yelling what my brain resists. I can indeed feel melancholy. We aren’t grading heartache on a curve, here. Each experience occupies its own space.

A jewel-encrusted book sank on RMS Titanic on 15 April 1912 - but this was not the end of the story.

A jewel-encrusted book sank on RMS Titanic on 15 April 1912 - but this was not the end of the story.

A few weeks after he was banned from visiting a London school by the Catholic church, Simon James Green was confronted with an array of protest paraphernalia. The author, whose stories for young adults have been applauded for reflecting the upside, as well as the angst, of queer teen lives, was at an awards ceremony in Bristol. Members of a local school’s LGBT+ society had made banners and leaflets proclaiming their solidarity, and denouncing “kids in Catholic school locked in the closet”.

Measuring the extent of self-reviewing at the New York Review of Books from 1963-2022

“If they’re gonna ban books, then the whole library should be in play," Chaz Stevens told the Miami New Times.

In “Read Until You Understand,” Farah Jasmine Griffin explores how books have served as instruction manuals to guide her through difficulty and triumph.

We booksellers have seen it all.

Efforts to remove books from libraries or limit their availability to teenagers and younger children have stepped up amid culture wars on race, gender and sexuality. Fights over critical race theory, transgender rights and other issues have public libraries on the front lines, sparking efforts to remove books from wide consumption.

The failure of progressive change in contemporary book publishing is so total that there is now a whole string of books about the failure of progressive change in contemporary book publishing, often backed enthusiastically by big corporate publishers, in an elaborate circuit of denial and absolution.

Authors can certainly be the victims of bad luck, lousy publicists, poor timing, tough competition, a crappy publisher, or a change in the marketplace. But most often, they sabotage themselves or they fail to overcome challenges and setbacks.

You can pick up these 10 free international titles as part of this Amazon free ebook giveaway. The deal lasts till April 27.

One of the most frequent things I find myself writing on students' manuscripts is "Who says this?" I did a big post on writing dialogue a couple of years ago, so this is a round-up of solutions to this specific problem of making sure the reader knows which character says what.