A recent New York Times piece opens with author E. Lockhart seeing her 2014 book We Were Liars hitting the best-seller list over the summer of 2020. Baffled but pleased,… Read more »

Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday, dear Instagram… although we may not be celebrating many parties in-person this year because of our lovely virus friend, we… Read more »

Hello, everyone. We come to you this bright Monday morning to sit you down and remind you of your advancing age and terminally increasing lethargy. Grab a coffee—let’s break it… Read more »

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 »