Amazon First Reads is a program that offers customers early access to new books across popular genres. Every month, customers can choose one of the Kindle books selected by our editors for free for ...

A strong opening sentence can offer much more than a mere introduction to a story. It can establish the mood, raise interest, ...

British novelist Charles Dickens (1812-1870) sat in his study in Gads Hill near Rochester, Kent circa 1860. He wrote one of the best first lines in literature. Great opening lines to books set the ...

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Advance Reader Copies are books that exist in a liminal state. Sent to reviewers, editors, booksellers, and increasingly, ...

Poignant that this story about book-burning has itself often been the object of censorship. Published in 1953, it made the American Library Association’s list of Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books: ...

The Amazon Kindle Colorsoft is a new e-reader with the sole purpose of reading e-books. This is Amazon’s first colour E INK product, and they now have to play catch up to established players in the ...

Almost 38,000 Iowa first grade students are slated to receive new books to take home as part of the state's ongoing literacy initiative. First grade students in public and accredited private schools ...

At Garden City, Long Island, was produced a book. It was the first book bred by the massive merger (TIME, Oct. 3, 1927) of Doubleday, Page & Co. and George H. Doran Co.; the first to bear their new ...

Reading is a revolutionary act. That’s the philosophy of Danielle Moore, founder of Chicago’s Semicolon Books. Since opening the first Semicolon bookstore in 2019, Moore has dedicated her business to ...

Storing hundreds of books on a digital device is a great way to satisfy your thirst for adventure or knowledge without needing lots of shelving in the home. But e-readers don't really feel book-like.