It takes a lot of creative effort to come up with new and inventive ways to pose books for Instagram – trust us, we know. But, one book influencer has stepped up her game to… Read more »

Remember how Instagram featured the launch of Insta Novels via the New York Public Library? Now Snapchat is stepping up to the plate with the launch of their YA novel…TV adaptation.… Read more »

There are some folks who complain about kids these days reading their social media timelines instead of reading a good book. Now those whippersnappers can have their cake and eat it,… Read more »

In a 2013 New Yorker article, Tim Kreider observed a trend in lacking cover design and his own difficulty in creating a marketable cover. He wrote, Although the covers of… Read more »

This just in: Reading is on the decline. Maybe this isn’t so surprising, given the shortening of our attention spans, but people in media and trade publishing are certainly looking to… Read more »

In 2006, Otis Chandler had a great train of thought. It went something like this: People are buying more books online Online stores aren’t bookstores People need a way to browse for… Read more »

This past Sunday morning, the New York Observer columnist Andre Walker took to Twitter to declare the following: “Nobody goes to libraries anymore. Close the public ones and put the… Read more »

Zadie Smith, author of the acclaimed novels White Teeth and On Beauty, has added her name to the list of writers who snub social media and the internet. Covering a recent live event of Smith’s, Alison Flood over… Read more »

We’ve written a lot about fake news in the wake of Donald Trump’s ascent to the presidency. But guess what — we’ve got more! A couple of weeks ago, the Reuters Institute released their Digital… Read more »

At some point—who knows exactly when—the Writer, a white-haired white man in this fantasy, became the poster child for thoughtful interiority and private life. This writer took his time. He… Read more »