'Birds of a feather read together' at this colorful Austin bookstore

Independent bookstores are the heartbeats of their communities. They provide culture and community, generate local jobs and sales tax revenue, promote literacy and education, champion and center diverse and new authors, connect readers to books in...

Kevin Bendle named next executive director of Seminary Co-op Bookstores

Following more than a year of uncertainty at the top, the Seminary Cooperative Bookstores has chosen longtime campus bookseller Kevin Bendle as its new executive director. “Kevin knows our stores well and we are certain of his commitment to...

One Of The World’s Most Beautiful Bookstores Is Right Here In DTLA — Home To California’s Biggest Collection Of New And Used Books

Credit: 1000Photography via Shutterstock. With 20 years of operation, this bookstore first debuted in L.A. back in 2005 inside a Downtown Los Angeles loft, and quickly became a local staple that earned it the chance to move to its current location...

New bookstore in Czech Village to offer diverse and hard-to-find genres

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — A new bookstore, Sisters Books & Nooks, is set to open in Czech Village on Tuesday, September 9. The women-owned shop aims to provide a welcoming space with a focus on genres that are often difficult to find, including...

New exhibition at the World Chess Hall of Fame: "Reading Between the Lines: Chess & Literature"

Press release The World Chess Hall of Fame & Galleries (WCHOF), the leading chess cultural center in the country, is proud to announce the upcoming opening of its newest exhibition, Reading Between the Lines: Chess & Literature, which explores the...

Literature professor pivots to botanicals

Adeline Koh left her position as a literature professor at Stockton University to open Sabbatical Beauty, a small botanicals business. CBS News' Lana Zak has more on her professional pivot. (Sponsored by AT&T Business)

Literature horizon scan for new scientific data on plants and their products obtained by new genomic techniques (January 2022 to May 2025)

Published: 29 August 2025 Abstract The European Food Safety Authority has issued several scientific opinions on plants obtained through certain new genomic techniques (NGTs) following requests received by the European Commission. These scientific...

The Mid-Hudson Library System’s mot-requested ebooks for the week ending Aug. 24, 2025

The following is a list of the most-requested ebooks at your local libraries for the week ending Aug. 17: Most Requested eBooks – Adult Fiction 1. The Wedding People — A Novel: Alison Espach, Macmillan Publishers 2. The God of the Woods — A Novel:...

Visible Voice turns up the volume: Beloved Tremont bookstore expands to Ohio City

CLEVELAND, Ohio – The “voice” in Visible Voice Books is about to get a whole lot louder. After nearly two decades tucked into Cleveland’s Tremont neighborhood, the bookstore is packing up its shelves and heading a mile and change west, into Ohio...

Fliphtml5 Empowers Users To Create Ebook With AI For Effortless Digital Publishing

(MENAFN- Market Press Release) August 28, 2025 4:22 am - FlipHTML5 allows users to create eBooks with AI and turn plain text into stylish, engaging digital eBooks effortlessly. In the digital age, eBooks have become a powerful medium for sharing...

Independent bookstores flourishing by focusing on niches

CTEC highlighted as high-impact training center in new ebook

In its fifth academic year of operation, Culpeper Technical Education Center is increasingly serving as a model for the nation of how to train up the next generation American workforce. CTEC is a public high school offering hands-on career and...

Syaman Rapongan’s “Eyes of the Ocean” Proves Rare Example of Taiwanese Indigenous Literature in English

語言: English Photo credit: Chun-Hung Eric Cheng/Flickr/CC BY 2.0 SYAMAN RAPONGAN’S Eyes of the Ocean proves a rare opportunity to glimpse the accomplished Taiwanese Indigenous writer’s work in English. In this sense, Eyes of the Ocean is one of the...

Yuma's only independent bookstore provides a community gathering space for readers and residents. But now the store needs your help.

The store suffered water damage just before its second birthday. Here's how you can celebrate and support the shop. YUMA, Ariz. — CJ Alberts knew Yuma needed an independent bookstore. She grew up in the southern Arizona town, and after moving back...

Sinwar's book 'How to defeat Israel' sold in Russian bookstores – report

How Literature Transforms Life

We often hear from some people that literature does nothing to change life, so it is useless to write literature. For them, it serves no purpose and thus has no value at all. There has been the age-old contention about the function of literature –...

List of books slated for removal from Edmonton school libraries contains ‘significant works of literature’: former trustee

Updated: August 29, 2025 at 7:43AM EDT Published: August 28, 2025 at 10:08PM EDT 'The Handmaid's Tale' by Margaret Atwood is among the books that will be removed from Edmonton Public School libraries for containing sexual content.

AIMP Nashville To Host ‘State of the Music Publishing Industry’

David Israelite. The Nashville Chapter of the Association of Independent Music Publishers (AIMP) is set to host “State of the Music Publishing Industry: An Update from David Israelite,” taking place Sept. 23 at 11:00 a.m. at The Listening Room...

How the ‘scariest moment’ of a South Jersey’s woman’s life prompted her to open a Jane Austen-themed bookstore

Write a book. Sing lead in an Afropunk band. Be a professor. Open a bookstore. Those are a few items on Charity Herndon’s bucket list, something she began seriously weighing last year when sitting in a doctor’s office waiting room after...

Literature is an art form

When we think of art, we usually picture something we can see or hear: a painting in a gallery, a sculpture carved from stone or a piece of music. Of course, everyone has different opinions on what truly makes something artistic. Some argue it...