Ebook revenues have been soaring since April, when most people were self-isolating and thousands of bookstores were closed. This trend continued in June when eBook revenues were up 39.0% for the month as compared to June 2019 for a total of $110.3 million. On a year-to-date basis, eBooks were up 12.7%, coming in at $544.5 …
Happy Publication Day! There are so many great books (as usual) and I can’t wait to read all of them. I’m currently reading Loathe at First Sight and hoping to start with Vicious Spirits next week. Dokkaebi: Vicious Spirits by Kat Cho After the events of Wicked Fox, Somin is ready to help her friends …
PLOT:5/5 CHARACTERS: 5.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 5/5 CLIMAX: 5/5 RELEVANCE: 5/5 “The aristocratic and fashionably slim lady at the door of an elite ground-floor apartment looked warily at the twenty-six-year-old before her…….” with this opening sentence in the first chapter – ‘The young visitor’; the author Richa Gupta opens our heart to varied characters most of …
Reading is my favorite introvert coping mechanism, but it’s also my favorite way to connect with other people. As a “social introvert,” I like to balance reading as a solitary act and reading in community with other bookworms. There’s a special kind of magic that happens when readers get together, and today’s episode is all …
Andy Weir’s most famous book is the Martian, which sold a copious amount of copies and spawned a movie. His second novel came out in 2017 and was titled Artemis, which was a near-future thriller–a heist story set on the moon. His third novel is going to come out in Spring 2021 and is titled …
The Amazon Fire HD 8 came out a couple of months ago and there has been so many new e-readers that have come out lately, that has been our priority. We finally conducted an extensive unboxing video of the latest entry level tablet from Amazon. You will get a sense of the retail packaging, everything …
In the first week of August, print sales are making a comeback. Unit sales have increased by 24.8% and the biggest gain was in the young adult fiction genre, where unit sales skyrocketed 168.8% over the week ended Aug. 10, 2019. The book that drove sales was the new Stephenie Meyer novel, Midnight Sun, which …
कहानी: 4.5/5 पात्र: 4.5/5 लेखन शैली: 3.5/5 उत्कर्ष: 4.5/5 मनोरंजन: 4/5 “मुसाफिर Dil” एक नवोदित कथाकार श्रीनाथ चौधरी की प्रथम रचना है। अतः पाठकों के समक्ष कथाकार का संक्षिप्त परिचय प्रस्तुत करना आवश्यक हो जाता है। श्रीनाथ चौधरी राजस्थान के नाथद्वारा शहर के मूल निवासी हैं। उन्होंने शारीरिक शिक्षा ग्रहण की है तथा वह बैडमिंटन …
I’ve held many titles over the last several years, as a podcaster, author, and now… Book Yoda. That might be my new favorite, bestowed upon me by today’s guest and Lazy Genius blogger Kendra Adachie. Perhaps you remember Kendra from all the way back in Episode 27: Books good enough to make you turn off the tv …
Today I’m helping Courtney Wallace, a Cincinnati reader, with a reading practice I hear surprisingly little about—her recent mid-year checkup on her reading goals. I hear a lot of talk about goals for the reading life—both numerical and content goals—at the start of every year. And I hear plenty of year-in-review summaries from readers. But …