An announcement from Simon & Schuster’s publisher left the literary community wondering whether blurbs, the little snippets ...

Barnes & Noble opened 57 stores in 2024 and plans to open at least 60 in 2025, thanks to a boost from BookTok, Axios reports.

Amazon next week will celebrate its 20th anniversary of its Amazon Prime membership. And now, Amazon Prime offers 300 million ...

Wesley Hill’s small volume about Easter is a beautiful and useful invitation to be shocked anew by the central event of our faith.

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

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

The chain has again pivoted in its resistance to organized labor, breaking with vociferous anti-union peers like Amazon and Apple as Trump gives mixed signals on worker issues.

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen were once the biggest teen stars in the world and were known for their iconic series of films and ...

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