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  • Truth and Consequences

    Why memoirists don't always have the last word.

  • The Editor Who Loved Too Much

    On getting dumped after hitting #1.

  • Why Writers Don't Go To Camp

    At least to my generation—the one born in the 1930s—the experience of summer camp was so much a part of our lives that we often measured the rest of the world by its standards.

  • Slaves to the Galley

    Searching on Amazon.com last week for Remains Silent, a debut thriller by Michael Baden and Linda Kenney released by Knopf on August 16, I found 35 listings under "used and new" copies.

  • On Cost and Community

    Book buyers, like everyone else, love a bargain. But with big box stores able to offer deep discounts on the most popular titles, independent booksellers should stop worrying about competing on price and concentrate on explaining to consumers why those cheap books aren't necessarily such a great deal after all.

  • Getting Over the Rainbow Party

    What's really going on in the world of teenagers and reading.

  • Harry Potter and the Overhyped Party

    Why I took a pass on midnight revelries.

  • Gone Today, Gone Tomorrow?

    Why Amazon could usher in a returns-free model for the whole industry.

  • Buying Books Isn't Necessary

    Bookselling should be about catering to wants, not needs.

  • Editing from the Inside

    To be a good editor, it helps to think like a writer.

  • The Bloom Is Off the Boom

    Publishers are missing the readers who fueled the early '90s African-American literary explosion.

  • Scoring Big By Staying Small

    How does a small publisher survive these days? So many independent houses have been gobbled up in the last 10 years that the 10 largest publishers now account for more than 60% of all book sales. Conventional wisdom says that it takes the deepest pockets to attract celebrity authors, to dominate shelf space at the superstores and the ether at Amazon, and to withstand the severe discounts requir...

  • These Are The Good Old Days

    U.S. book publishing has become the world's greatest enabler of reading.

  • Go, Girls

    Chick lit can also be lit.

  • The Big Chill?

    What the controversy at America means for Catholic writers and publishers.

  • Why Give In to Google?

    Publishers will be better stewards of the digital future.

  • How to Talk to an Author, if You Must

    Some alternatives to the cold, hard truth.

  • Let Us Go, Then

    Stop talking about Jorie Graham and get on with it.

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