Bookish Intelligence Report

7 Sep

  • Who buys books? Women and households with income under $32,000, according to the Seattle Times (via Seattle Times)
  • What does author William Gibson think lay in the future of the book? (via the Wall Street Journal blog)
  • Book burning a thing Americans wouldn’t do? Think again. Wonder if those burning these Korans in Florida know that Islam considers Jews and Christians fellow “people of the book?” (via ABC News)
  • Apparently, books are disposable to one school in Brooklyn (via NY Daily News)
  • One Book Sacramento kicks off this week with non-fiction entry, Zeitoun (via Sacramento Bee)
  • Once invincible Waterstone’s bookseller in the UK have fallen mightily, the Guardian opines on the descent (via The Guardian)
  • So the Boston Globe and Paris Review are chatting up the subway book reading observations and experience. Well we at B3 and all our lovely Twitter friends have been conversing about this for months (via Boston Globe)
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