Literacy is, by most accounts, a positive thing. It just depends on what people use it for. Banning books has been a popular solution to the problem of “reading the wrong thing” since at least the ...

Jimmy is a writer and editor who publishes a weekly newsletter. You can find him on Twitter. Will e-books put libraries out of business? In all likelihood, the answer is a firm no. Readers of e-books ...

Literary snoots are quick to point out that the book is always better than the movie, but that is simply not true. One of the widely agreed-upon best movies of all time, The Godfather, is based on a ...

A new infographic reveals some statistics about the plateauing of e-books and the triumph of hardcover sales that should warm the hearts of bibliophiles.

Margaret Harris reviews Cosmos: the Infographic Book of Space by Stuart Lowe and Chris North Collision imminent (Courtesy: <i>We Are Founded/Cosmos: the Infographic Book of Space</i> by Stuart Lowe ...

Why do we find infographics so compelling? To answer that, let’s look to the past. Ask an expert on effective data visualizations to name the best infographics of all time, and odds are good she’ll ...