Watermark West Rare Bookstore has overcome challenges for 40 years, including the internet upending the book business and a ...

A book with sprayed edges will have the ends of the pages spray-painted so a band of bright color appears when the cover ...

Silver spoons for the dining table have been around since antiquity - a much longer history than the table fork, which did not come into general use until the 18 th century. By this time spoons had ...

They did this to avoid the perils of travel and (after 1784) to escape paying duty in a region where a heathy distain for the Hanoverians persisted well into the 19 th century. Currently some 30 ...

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Sharon Benton, marketing and groups manager at The Booksellers Association, is retiring this month after 35 years with the organisation. 👇 The Bookseller on LinkedIn: Sharon Benton retires ...

“It’s really a godsend.” Image A 2023 survey of independent bookstores by the American Booksellers Association found that only 18 percent sell e-books, largely because of the limited ...

Local, independent bookstores have never been more important. With fair access to literature under political attack, bookstores are a bulwark against censorship and an asset to the communities ...

It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.