An announcement from Simon & Schuster’s publisher left the literary community wondering whether blurbs, the little snippets of praise on a book jacket, are all they’re cracked up to be.

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For the novelist Rebecca Makkai, writing blurbs had become nearly a full-time job. She explains why blurbs matter — and why ...

Today, I’m talking with Andy Hunter, the CEO of Bookshop.org. Bookshop, at its core, is a website that lets local bookshops ...

Former actors and teen superstars Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen shot to fame as babies on the sitcom Full House before going on ...

The Reddit user told Newsweek that he doesn't want to "spend all that money on a new coat" only to receive one that might have been used.

Independent sellers on Amazon's marketplace are reporting an increase in fraudulent returns that they say is cutting into ...

According to recent data from research firm IBISWorld, Amazon controls over 80 percent of all online (e)book sales. The ...

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Not long after arriving in New York, Sarah McNally, a devoted vegetarian, tried oysters for the first time with the family of ...

Public libraries have increasingly loaned digital content in the past ten years. Worldwide, libraries that do business with ...

The grocery chain’s store in Philadelphia becomes the first to join a union, where workers hope to expand organizing to other ...