Link of the Week: Fall in Love with a Book

Whether you adore Valentine’s Day, or can’t stand to see another flying baby yielding arrows for the rest of your life, the pink-and-red-choco-holic holiday is upon us. As book lovers, what better way to spend the day than by reading other people’s...

Link of the Week: Oyster – the Netflix of Books?

In today’s society, the all-you-can-eat subscription model has changed our ideas about media consumption. We want instant streaming and we want it now. Netflix is the prime example. With over 30 million subscribers, Netflix provides instant television show and...

Link of the Week: NPR’s “The Book Concierge”

According to this article from Publisher’s Weekly, NPR has debuted a new website and mobile app called The Book Concierge. This “unusual” tool allows readers to go through over 200 recommended book titles from 2013. Readers can sort through the list...

Link of the Week: Affordable College Textbook Act

As publishing students we have learned that academic publishing is where most of the money is. We also know as students why this is the case. Textbooks are outrageously expensive. This is an ongoing moral battle for us. We know how important academic publishing is,...