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Each year we receive 6,000 damaged books from other publishers—and we're passing the savings on to…

Writing a book? We know, this is a hard thing to do. Here are three of our best books about how to write your own.…

From the creators of Images You Should Not Masturbate To, this collection of forty hilarious books that were never…

For cat and book lovers alike, and doubly so if both are your passion. This cute little volume features pictures of cats…

This one of a kind collection belongs on the shelf of every book nerd, and contains some of the most obscure and unusual…

The last forty years have brought some truly revolutionary changes to the publishing industry, fueled by the rise…

How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor provides general advice for reading nonfiction as a whole and genre…

Once upon a time, Laura Moulton had an idea—what if she fixed up a cargo tricycle as a rolling library to…

Like most of our cultural institutions and workers, bookshops and booksellers have worked hard in the last few years to…

This is the story of the first bookmobile and how one revolutionary librarian decided if you can't bring people to…

Take the leap and try communicating only through your imagery, your art, your work. Learn to actively not think and just…

The 56th issue of Cometbus is a loving ethnography of New York City's wild, weird, and bearded used book trade.…

In My Bookstore our greatest authors write about the pleasure, guidance, and support that their favorite…

Good bookshops are questions without answers. They are places that provoke you intellectually, encode riddles, surprise…

A real-life detective novel, this is the story of a quest for eight mysterious books that nearly vanished from…

The road paved by our civilization’s best books is a long and noble one, but it is also lined with unexpected…