The ceaseless "electronification" of books has prompted a heated principle versus practice debate. One side points to a sentimental attachment to books, the feeling of flipping the pages or of borrowing old copies of classic works from relatives. The other side has its sights focused on technology's potential--all of a sudden, buying a book is easier, many of the classics are free and writers walk away with a larger chunk of the profits. This sort of issue, with such a vast array of pros and cons, has left many readers puzzled.
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Dickson's Bible & Book Store this month is holding its annual "Scratch & Dent" super sale, offering less-than-perfect books and Bibles for up to 60 percent off. 
One advantage of e-books is that they're virtually indestructible.
HarperCollins doesn't want those eBooks of theirs to get torn up, so it makes perfect sense that they've set a limit of 26 checkouts for the eBooks titles it has licensed to libraries. Wait, eBooks can't get damaged, so, what's the big idea?
Whether or not Borders survives closing some 200 stores, the "superstore" boom of the past two decades has busted, authors and publishers face a market minus millions of square feet of physical shelf space and communities once crowded with booksellers may find themselves with none.
Target is celebrating Black History Month by making a major book donation to Chicago Public School students.
There has been a lot of troubling news for bookstores lately as they face increased competition from e-books and online retailers, and now even Target stores have them in their sights. If you go into any Target, you'll find a variety of fiction, trade fiction, non-fiction, and mass release books that is more comparable to a bookstore than any other big box store, so you can grab the latest from your favorite author while shopping for everything else you need.
Borders Group Inc. is expected to file for bankruptcy early this coming week - the result of declining annual revenues and mounting rent obligations as well as its struggle to catch up to the e-book business that is credited with keeping the publishing industry afloat.
With seconds to go, an announcer began the countdown over the microphone: "Five, four, three, two, one." And with that, the multitude waiting for hours outside the exhibit hall streamed in, some carrying plastic bags, some wheeling large pieces of empty luggage.
Don't tell Suzanna Hermans that cozy, well-stocked bookstores such as hers have no future during a digital age in which e-books are just a click away.