All Things Bookish

The Australian airline has created what it believes are books of the perfect length and style for your flight. But how does it know how fast you read? Read this article by Chris Matyszczyk on CNET News.

A high-street indie drawing 81,000 web visits in a day might seem surprising – but there are many reasons why it should

Get the scoop on my research trip to Paris. 

"Texts, blogs, emails and Facebook posts are affecting other kinds of writing – mostly for the good."

As the London Book Fair showcases this year's literary trends, we showcase the latest must-have looks...And what's not hot? On the way out are yellows and pastels; the curious short-lived vogue for showing only women's feet or arms; images of furniture; ostensibly hand-illustrated covers (eg The Art of Fielding) - and the retro look in general has become passe"

In a new book, former Kindle exec Jason Merkoski examines where e-reading platforms are now and how they could change in the future. If you’re looking for secrets about Jeff Bezos, though, you’re in the wrong place.

Ten years after his first book deal, novelist Matt Haig reflects on 30 things that being published has taught him.

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Scholar unearths trove of unpublished work by poet voted Britain's favourite

We initially assumed that early adopters of eReader devices would be avid readers and, therefore, the marginal buyer would read less," Devitt wrote.

However, data from a recent Amazon presentation show that consumers who bought a Kindle in 2011 read 4.6 times more e-books, on average, in the 12 months following their gadget purchase, compared with the 12 months before getting the device, the analyst noted.

Amazon has landed a patent for a second-hand digital market - a concept that has already attracted the ire of rights-holders elsewhere.

Book publishers discussed digital-first and digital-only initiatives at the Making Information Pay conference this week.

Yesterday, author Maureen Johnson had a great idea. She tweeted "I do wish I had a dime for every email I get that says, "Please put a non-girly cover on your book so I can read it.

Short skirts, short hair, and even shorter love affairs—channel the deliciously scandalous lives of 1920s flappers in the Manhattan-based historical mystery The Other Typist.

The snacks at the Library of Congress shop, proving no librarian anywhere can resist a pun.

From hashtags to LOLs to Cupertinos and Scunthorpe problems, Tom Chatfield picks the most interesting neologisms drawn from the digital world

A small fraction of Americans buy the vast majority of books in this country. Goodreads gives Jeff Bezos & Co. a direct line into their thoughts and habits.

The answer lies, I think, not in ‘groovifying’ Foyles (think “touchscreens everywhere, even on the walls outside the store”) – which is at most a finishing touch – but in the positive aspects of theexperience of buying a book that Amazon can’t capture. Foyles has something Amazon can never have: physical depth. It is much nicer to browse through a book collection you can see and touch. 

From James Bond's boiled eggs to Queequeg's beefsteak, the first bite of the day is one of literature's less celebrated themes

Some business-book authors hire a marketing firm that purchases books ahead of the publication date, creating a spike in sales that helps titles be able to claim best-seller status.

The blog of Wordnik.com: connecting people with meaning

Jane Austen has been dead for close to 200 years, but it's hard to imagine she's gotten much rest in her grave in Westminster Abbey , what with all the rewrites, updates and zombifications of her work.