Why Vox is an Anti-Intellectual Publication and How it Can Do Better. By Benjamin Studebaker.

On niceness in publishing and why we should ask men to do better. By Alana Massey.

Publisher HarperCollins is ending sales of Trump aide and former Fox News contributor Monica Crowley's book until revisions can

Simon & Schuster has given the Breitbart writer a $250,000 deal – so I decided the Chicago Review of Books would not cover any of its authors in 2017. By Adam Morgan.

Small and independent houses share the books they enjoyed and envied this year. By Eloise Millar.

Inside the lobby of MAD magazine was an orange naugahyde couch, an old standing ashtray next to it, like the kind in train stations when people dressed up to travel, and a larger-than-life statue of Alfred E. Neuman, patron saint of adolescent parody, in a pith helmet and safari fatigues. Dad approached the nonplussed receptionist and, with all the insincere aplomb of the 1960s campus subversive he is and always will be, said directly, "We're here for the tour," and waited for the answer. We got it.

Even by the standards of the ailing book publishing industry, the past year has been a bad one for Barnes & Noble. After the company spun off its profitable college textbook division, its stock plunged nearly 40 percent. Its long-term debt tripled, to $192 million, and its cash reserves dwindled. Leonard Riggio, who turned the company into a behemoth, has announced he will step down this summer after more than 40 years as chairman. At the rate it’s going, Barnes & Noble won’t be known as...

Only 6 percent of people say they have a great deal of confidence in the press, about the same level of trust Americans have in Congress, according to a new survey released on Sunday. The study mirrors past reports that found the public’s trust in mass media has reached historic lows, according to data gathered by the Media Insight Project, a partnership between The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and the American Press Institute.

The push for traffic means that clicks rule – even if the facts don’t check out. By Kevin Rawlinson.

Medium solidifies its purpose. By Brian Feldman.

As a digital wallet and subscription service, CoinTent will increase revenue by looking at 3 user segments.