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The tee-up to this year's Black Friday began early, with many retailers pushing holiday ads while pumpkins and Halloween costumes were still on store shelves. Wal-Mart shot the first volley when it launched a price war last month with online retail giant Amazon.com over books. Walmart slashed...
The printing process is speedy and impressive. The copier rapidly spits out a thick stack of pages, which the machine then clamps, rotates, and binds with hot glue into a card-stock jacket. Two blades, regrettably obscured from view, thresh off the book’s edges until it is...
Borges, in that haunting short story “The Library of Babel,” imagined the universal library as a dystopia, where “the shelves register every possible combination of the twenty-odd orthographical symbols,” where the availability of all possible books means...
Christmas has not been kind to Augusten Burroughs. But in his inimitable style, the New York Times best-selling author of Running with Scissors, Dry and A Wolf at the Table turns his smorgasbord of cringe-worthy seasonal memories - a one-night stand with an aging Frenchman in a Santa...
Halloween's resilience in the face of a recession would seem to make some sense. It's relatively cheap fun, and parents aren't about to steal candy from their babies by grounding trick-or-treating. The kiddies, however, aren't driving the growth. "Sales of adult items are surprisingly...