Making Book
Paramount’s second coming
Sheikh Zayed Book Award
Of cobblers and lasts
The Swallwell effect and book sales
Challenging literature
Passing off
Go all in
Independent Bookstore Day 2026
Are we reading when we listen to an audio-book?
The profession that doesn’t exist
Pulp fiction
Microdramas
Penalty of success?
By eastern windows comes in the light
Translation rights and wrongs
Quiver, Don’t Quake
Alasdair Gray
National Poetry Month
School prize
Undreamt of beauties of style
Wilde-side solution
“Shy Girl” fiasco
Making plates
Drop books
Should only people get copyright?
Is it all over?
Shy publisher?
The world’s (five) oldest books
Publisher’s discretion
Book (store) banning
Reading’s good for you, isn’t it?
“Books Need to Be ‘as Urgent as Notifications’”
Smoother, lighter, whiter*
Scam publisher
Book banning envy
Narrator Hall of Fame
Book Bunk & Nairobi’s libraries
Get on the bus!
Things fall apart
Woke joke
The classic long tail
Identity drift
Withering heights of marketing
Who needs reviews?
Fiat Lux
“Will we ever read books again?”
Winter Institute
HLH
Quick Reads
Sinking a pirate ship
Calo generalizzato
Why authors hide AI usage and what publishers can do about it
AI engineers
Morality vs profitability
Productivity explosion
Subcontracted out of existence?
More media shrinkage
It’s a business after all
Sales come and sales go
Adapting to technological change
Big book event
The internet’s resident librarian
Brain fog?
Yiddish: A Global Culture
Mayoral advice
Unindependent bookstores
Malcolm Cowley
Amazon power?
Phillis Wheatley
“The AIien in the Room”
Stagnation?
Martin Luther King Jr. and books
Digital audio numbers
Benjamin Franklin as newspaper man
Roman reading
Folger Library conservation work
Bibble–babble
Pinching Pushkin
Gender differences in reading
Tumbledown libraries
Rearranging deckchairs?
AIGA NY
Wound man
Book fairs
Model book
Research integrity, publication integrity
Top library checkouts of the year
Virginia Woolf visits Trinity
Licensing AI
Covers of the year, 2025
An AI parable
Library of us
Deadline
Hinc lucem et pocula sacra
“American Canto” design
Woke wonkery
America’s Printed Path to Independence
Book time
Randomly hard times?
KPop Demon Hunters
Customer-direct fulfillment
Scottish bookshops
Deforestation de-regulation
Bible boom
Authorial anxiety
Licensing AI
AI and designs
Digital display numbers
Cats and dogs
Learned societies and publishing
Flood insurance for the journal world?
Binding styles 17 Coptic link stitch binding
The Bible patent
People of the book*
Press closure
Attention, reading, smartphones
Pressure on presses
Break
No, the world is not ending*
Don Quixote or Dan Brown?
Baker & Taylor — vale
Living in the library
Pecia system
Cragg Vale Paper Mill
New school libraries
Translation waves
Book sharing boxes
What about the workers?
That parching wind
Bundling
La Rochefoucauld and the epigraph
Poetic influence
British Museum Reading Room
Folio success
AI’s Great Leap Forward
Newspapers but not news papers