Book clubs

This summer, author Megan Miranda won the publishing lottery.

Miranda, who writes thrillers and young-adult novels, is the kind of author that publishers usually call midlist. She's well established, and one of her books has even been a New York Times bestseller, yet outside of her genre, she's not exceptionally famous.

For 20 years BookBrowse'A literary smorgasbord of a site, offering substantial excerpts from bestselling books which you can browse through before purchasing.' www.BookBrowse.com has been providing reading recommendations to book clubs and readers in general through its website and newsletters, so we at BookBrowse know that the perception many have of book clubs - as primarily social groups with minimal serious discussion - isn't accurate, but until recently we didn't have the hard data to prove it.

Love conquers all ... and it's certainly causing problems for the online book subscription service Scribd, which has announced it is slashing its romance and erotica offer because readers are gorging themselves.  Read more

I often dream I am in a bookstore or in a library. Then I wake up and I am in Queens, the largest of the five boroughs in New York City, the most diverse place imaginable, and where there are currently two Barnes & Noble and one independent book seller and a few places to buy used books. But given the size and density of this borough, this borough truly lacks bookstores.  Read more