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IOBA Takes on Amazon [...]

The Vook is a mixture of text, video and twitter stream. Read in the [...]

In this the 200 anniversary of literary giant
Nikolai Gogol’s birth, Russia is once again trying to bully it’s neighbour into it’s way of thinking. Follow the link to read the full [...]

1984 by George Orwell was recently voted the book most people have lied about reading. Also in the list according to Spread the Word: Books to Talk about two thirds of people claimed to have read a book [...]

Farhad Hakimzadeh, an Iranian, Harvard-educated, millionaire businessman, publisher and intellectual has stolen leaves from 150 books in the care of British Librairies. Aparentely to fill the gaps in his collection. Surely if you were said person you would donate leaves or maybe even whole books to the care of [...]

Shame you can’t construct buildings out [...]

Hot on the heels of the Book Thief is the Book Bandit! This time for real. Like something out of a Pink Panther film, in America there is a thief prowling rare book collections at the countries [...]