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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Retailers Gear up for Black Friday | 11/13/2009 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Charlie E. Riggs | Title: Dream of a Universal Bookstore | 11/4/2009 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Charlie E. Riggs | Title: Dream of a Universal Bookstore | 11/4/2009 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Author Augusten Burroughs | 10/27/2009 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Halloween: One Holiday Not Scared by Recession | 10/22/2009 | See Source »

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