Examining the
'Amazon Way': John Rossman, an executive at Amazon in the early
2000s, has written 'The Amazon Way,' about the 14 leadership principles that
drive the retailer, including obsessing over the customer, hiring and
developing the best, and practicing frugality.
Banning the
Bestsellers: Mental Floss lays out 10 wildly popular 21st
century books that people have tried to ban—and the surprising reasons they
were deemed unsuitable material.
Alastair Reid
Dies at 88: Alastair Reid, a Scottish-born, insistently
peripatetic poet, translator and essayist who wrote of far-flung places (among
other things) for the 'New Yorker' over more than half a century, died on
Sunday in Manhattan.
Saving Paris's
Oldest Bookstore : Librairie Delamain's rent is being hiked to
100,000 euros a year. Will a uniquely French determination to save a cultural
icon triumph over e-books, Amazon, and foreign landlords?
Artistic
Bookshelves : As part of the London Art Book Fair, the the
city's Whitechapel Gallery asked the U.K.’s best artists, including Damien
Hirst, to share their "shelfies."
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