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What If the Book Business Collapses?

Hugh McGuire | Posted 12.27.2008 | Media

Read More: Literature, Publishing, Writing, Books, Bookselling, Borders, Barnesandnoble, Reading, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Media News
Hugh McGuire

The book business has stopped caring much about books. Like all businesses with stock, the people running them have one central responsibility: to increase shareholder value.

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Culture Builds Character and Connections

Danny Groner | Posted 11.19.2008 | Living

Read More: Outliers, The Pages in Between, Relationships, Erin Einhorn, Books, Tenement Museum, Malcolm Gladwell, This American Life, Barnes and Noble, Culture, Living News
Danny Groner

Gladwell discusses the factors that helped some of the most successful people achieve what they have. He posits that nurture matters exceedingly more than nature.

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A Tale of Two Obama Books: Why Do Progressives Still Not Get It?

Jennifer Nix | Posted 08.20.2008 | Media

Read More: Blogs, Independent Booksellers, Robert Kuttner, Publishing, Obama Nation, Margo Baldwin, Glenn Greenwald, George Lakoff, Chelsea Green, Progressive Media, Jerome Corsi, Obama's Challenge, Technology, Barack Obama, Barnes and Noble, Media News
Jennifer Nix

Obama Nation is a pathetic excuse for a book and is just one more example of how the right effectively moves their lies into the national discourse while the left fails to do so with progressive ideas.

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In a Blog Age: The Enduring Power of the Handwritten Word

Lily Koppel | Posted 07.10.2008 | Media

Read More: Blogs, Florence Wolfson, The Red Leather Diary, Lily Koppel Ny Times, Red Leather Diary Lily Koppel, Barnes and Noble, Facebook, Denver, Journal, Tristine Rainer, Anais Nin, Michael Blumenthal, The Power of Writing Journal Conference, Diary, Kathleen Adams, Christina Baldwin, Wal-Mart, Hallmark, Barnes & Noble, Moleskine, Filofax, Media News
Lily Koppel

In our era where every life is made public through email, blogs and Facebook, one of the greatest oddities may be that there is not a livelier discussion about the individual's basic need for a more private space.

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Writers and Publishers Fight Amazon Takeover

Alison Rose Levy | Posted 04.03.2008 | Media

Read More: Authors, Writers, Print on Demand, Independent Press, Commercial Publishers, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Media News
Alison Rose Levy

Amazon is now making moves on monopolizing the kind of books that people can read or write.

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The Secret New York Alternative to Barnes & Noble

Michelle Haimoff | Posted 01.08.2008 | Living

Read More: Bank Street Bookstore, Alabaster Bookshop, Crawford Doyle, McNally Robinson, New York Bookstores, Barnes and Noble, Hue-Man Bookstore & Cafe, Three Lives & Company, Housing Works Used Book Cafe, Living News
Michelle Haimoff

If you're already in New York, you may as well seek out one of the city's more distinctive neighborhood bookstores.

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