The prospect of reading a book filled me with anxiety and shame. But an ADHD diagnosis changed everything, says writer and presenter Verity Babbs

Giving residents censorship rights over librarians and the public crosses a clear line that should never be breached.

Revive your inner bookworm

What does it take to lend one's writing to someone else? A ghostwriter who has authored multiple books offers a peek into the world of writing sans the fame.

Our discomfort lies more with how a bestselling celebrity novel reconfigures the book as ‘merchandise’.

Authors Jodi Picoult and Jonathan Franzen are also part of the suit, which accuses OpenAI of copyright infringement and “systematic theft on a mass scale."

Why a book can be good for mental well-being.

Nine books and 41 songs, including tracks from rising stars Peso Puma and Ice Spice, made the former president and tastemaker's recommendations list.

A prominent author's decision to pull her novel from publication after being "review bombed" highlights Goodreads's power and raises questions about its owner: Amazon.

Have romance novel characters become, well, too romantic? Fabio Lanzoni, the Italian American actor and model popular known as just Fabio who famously flaunted his muscular body on the covers of scores of romance novels, thinks so.

Book bans, chatbots, pedagogical warfare: What it means to read has become a minefield.

The latest generation of AI is a game changer. Not incremental change—something gentle, something gradual: this AI changes everything, fast. Scary fast. I believe that every function in trade book publishing today can be automated with the help of generative AI. And, if this is true, then the trade book publishing industry as we know it will soon be obsolete. We will need to move on.

The Illinois Senate has passed HB 2789, a bill whose terms dictate that state funding from libraries that remove books will be withheld.

A company is republishing books that have fallen out of print and finding new ways to market works that are years, even decades, old.

NPR's Scott Simon remarks on the effects of book bans on libraries and young readers.

Chatbots, surveillance, climate crisis … reality bites

The tweet appeared on Sunday. By Monday, the book was in Amazon's Top 100—and rising.

A man in China who spent 800,000 yuan (US$116,000) building a bookshop in a remote village on top of a mountain has captivated mainland social media after a video of the store was posted online. Milestone Bookstore is located in a rural area of Zhejiang province in eastern China, surrounded by farmland and woodland atop a mountain, Dami Video reported.

It was only natural for Alexander Jones to feel thrilled when he saw a sixth-century palimpsest at the Ambrosiana library in Milan for the first time. It happened in 1984 when Jones was working on his dissertation using manuscripts in Italy. With the tools at his disposal, including a portable ultraviolet lamp and microfilm, he could only read a few lines. But Jones’ interest was piqued because there were pages of the text that no one had succeeded in reading.

This week, we learned Warner Bros, New Line Cinema, and the Embracer Group have inked a new deal to make more Lord of the Rings movies. Will they be seq...