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 ...

Anuli is a writer and new-media enthusiast who dreams about becoming the sixth Spice Girl. Until then follow her on Google+ or Twitter: @akaanuli. Producers of printed books and producers 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 ...

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 ...

Earlier this week, Hillary Clinton released "What Happened," her new book chronicling her defeat to Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election. Clinton holds little back in describing how she lost ...

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 ...

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