Culture industries increasingly use our data to sell us their products. It’s time to use their data to study them. To that end, we created the Post45 Data Collective, an open access site that pee
Category: BOOKS
The Coronavirus Pandemic Is Changing How People Buy Books
WHEN ANDY HUNTER launched his ecommerce startup Bookshop in January, he hoped it might carve out a small, cheerful corner of a market dominated by Amazon. Hunter’s pitch was appealing. He offered
Attempts to Ban Books Are Accelerating and Becoming More Divisive
To mark Banned Books Week, the American Library Association released a report on the rise in censorship efforts: In 2022, there have been attempts to restrict access to 1,651 titles. Attempts to ba
Importance of Reading Books in a Student Life
Books play a very important role in everyone’s life, especially in a students’ life. They are our best friends because they inspire us to do great things in life and overcome our failures. We l
Should books include credits like films?
Books are generally presented as the work of one person, but almost 60 others worked on mine. But will readers care enough to read about them? We writers lead a necessarily solitary life – at lea
Banned-Book Author: If a Book Isn’t in the School Library, ‘It Might as Well Not Exist’
As book bans across the country have escalated, some authors are caught in the crosshairs of the debates over the content in these books. Books about LGBTQ characters or books with a protagonist or