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As if publishers —  especially small-time, independent publishers — didn’t have enough to worry about, what with the New York Times’ ”Ethicist” Randy Cohen telling everybody that it’s OK to steal books… 14 / Read more »

Is the forthcoming bio of Oprah Winfrey written by Kitty Kelly getting blackballed because people are afraid to offend Winfrey? That’s what a Wowowow report by Margot Howard says. According… Read more »

“It’s a suspicion that’s been growing for some time,” Newsweek book editor Malcolm Jones observes in a new column. “Hard to say precisely when it started, maybe with the publication… 2 / Read more »

The Philadelphia Center for the Book, the Philadelphia Athenaeum, and Philagrafika 2.0 present “Building by the Book,” an exhibition hosted at the Athenaeum, one of Philly’s earliest private libraries (today… Read more »