From The New Yorker, can the Kindle really improve on the book? Nicholson Baker investigates. Why 2024 will be like Nineteen Eighty-Four: How Amazon's remote deletion of e-books from the Kindle paves the way for book-banning's digital future. Amazon's deletion of novels from Kindle devices shows that buying an ebook isn't like owning a real, secondhand tome. The artists’ book: Appreciating a book means more than an interest in its literary content and illustrations. The book cover, once disposable, is now as much part of a work's identity as the words inside. Bibliovision: Books, which as objects of desire have seemed to have scant place in Hollywood’s slick, visual sensibility, have a new role in the business of television. A review of Ancient Literacies: The Culture of Reading in Greece and Rome by William A. Johnson and Holt N. Parker. A look at how Target can make sleepy titles into best sellers. Book Seer bases its recommendations on the last book you read; shame it does such a bad job — or does it? Never build a relationship on books: The new dating site from Borders promises happy endings. Closing the book on a bad read: Kelly Jane Torrance on cutting your losses without guilt. James Purnell has been using his time to rearrange his bookshelves alphabetically; bad mistake — here's why.
