English-Language Books Are Filling Europe’s Bookstores. Mon Dieu! ( www.nytimes.com )
Publishers are complaining that people prefer to read the novels in English instead of their native tongues.
Publishers are complaining that people prefer to read the novels in English instead of their native tongues.
Anthony Bourdain & The Balvenie head to San Francisco, California to meet with Andrew Hoyem, master typographer and printer of Arion Press. One of the last of its kind, Arion Press has only a handful of members on its staff, all fellow craftsmen dedicated to this age old process. Each works meticulously to create the books in...
Not sure I like the "Netflix of books" suggestion(libraries exist!), but I thought this was interesting.
Please see also: beehaw.org/post/12924678
Perelandra Bookshop’s reader-in-residence commits to reading at the store for two hours per week in exchange for a small coffee and book stipend
I’m not saying that all self-help is bad. There’s always been an audience for short and snappy self-improvement books (there’s a reason why there are only 7 Habits, not 70), and that’s just fine. But I do worry about a larger phenomenon that I’ll call the bulletpointification of books and media....
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