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In Praise of Textbooks — One Teacher’s Passionate Call for Sanity

05 October 202005 October 2020|Print

It doesn’t have to be this hard. That’s the overriding sentiment of parent and educator Joanne Petrone, who penned an insightful article in praise of textbooks on Slate. “When schools closed this spring, many parents, including me, felt overwhelmed and...

Print Sales Double Last Week; Sales Up in all Categories

22 April 202022 April 2020|Print

As school kids around the globe shift to learning from home, parents are buying books. Lots of books. “As has been the usual case since the new coronavirus upended the book market, the juvenile categories posted the strongest results,” writes...

Buy a Book, Save an Indie Shop

31 March 202031 March 2020|Print

You’ve binge-watched Tiger King and cleaned out the shed. Now what? Books. We need books. And with Amazon focusing on delivering essential goods for at least the next six weeks, this is the perfect time to help save indie bookstores,...

Indie Publishers Rally around their Booksellers

19 March 202019 March 2020|Print

When life gets turned on its head, we face our fears and adapt the best we can. And, in our better moments, we reach out to do what we can to help others. So it is in the indie publishing...

Iconic Cincinnati Bookstore Marks 80 Years on Main Street

13 February 202013 February 2020|Print

Remember the days of the massive multi-story bookstore? You could get lost for hours in there, finding any number of nooks or crannies to read, daydream, plan your next novel. Too bad those days are gone forever…. Oh, wait. Hey...

Now You Own It, Now You Don’t – Digital Media Ownership Gets Fuzzy

23 October 201923 October 2019|Digital

This summer we shared the news that Microsoft was shuttering its e-book store. They are out of the e-book business and have not only closed their e-book store, but they have also erased all traces of any e-books you purchased...

Print Books and the Millennial – a Love Story

24 September 201910 November 2021|Print

The stats may surprise you. According to CNBC, people still love to own physical books … and the proof is in the bottom line.“Publishers of books in all formats made almost $26 billion in revenue last year in the U.S.,...

The Eerily Prescient World of Books in 19th & 20th Century Sci-Fi

19 September 201919 September 2019|Print

Did you know that the storyline in Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame was set just a quarter-century after the printing of Gutenberg’s first bible? According to Leah Price in the Paris Review, the novel “depicted an archdeacon worrying...

The Counterfeit Culture inside Amazon’s Bookstore

27 August 201910 November 2021|Print

Ever wonder how there can be so many sources and editions for the books you want to buy? Sure, there is any number of used booksellers out there. But what about brand, spanking new copies? According to Porter Anderson in...

Yes, Apparently, Microsoft CAN Do This to Your Ebooks

09 July 201909 July 2019|Print

Picture this. You go to the bookstore, browse the shelves, plunk down some cash on the latest hardcover you’ve been wanting to read, and head home, looking forward to some quality time on the back deck. There’s a knock on...

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