Reading

New startup Booktracks is creating soundtracks for e-books with technology that tracks your reading speed and syncs the sound perfectly to the text. The company promises it will revolutionize reading, and authors like Salman Rushdie and Jay McInerney are giving it a try. But do books really need a Hollywood makeover?

For public libraries, it's the best of times and the worst of times: Usage is skyrocketing, but budgets are being slashed. What to do? A few thriller authors are stepping in -- and using their time and fame to help organize fund-raising events for libraries. The goal is to create a national movement.

From history and economics to crime novels and biographies, whatever book the president touches -- and talks about -- turns into sales gold. Americans are very clearly interested in whatever the president is reading, and they're buying accordingly.

If you were in elementary school in the 1990s, you remember The Baby Sitters Club. The series, written by Ann M. Martin, starred a group of middle school students who, in a bid for some extra cash, start their own babysitting syndicate of sorts -- offering guaranteed childcare to parents on short...

When Bernie Madoff confessed in December 2008 that he had been running a Ponzi scheme for decades, everyone was surprised, but not Harry Markopolos and his team. Markopolos, Frank Casey, Neil Chelo and Mike Ocrant had been tracking Madoff's boldface lies for 10 years. They had, in fact, reported...

TD Bank is offering a summer reading program this summer to encourage children to read and develop the habit of saving money. My daughter enjoys visiting our local bank branch because last summer we participated in the TD Bank Summer Reading Program that allows kids to earn $10 for reading 10...

Here's some good news from the recession: Book sales are up, at least in Continental Europe. As far as "cheap treats" go, books are at the top of the list, and readers have more time on their hands if they're unemployed, according to a story in the New York Times. The numbers aren't up...

More people are reading fiction for the first time in 26 years, and some of that increase may be due to the recession. The National Endowment for the Arts reported in a report released Monday that for the first time since 1982, when the U.S. Census Bureau began collecting such data, the proportion...

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The Internet has changed how we communicate with loved ones, bank, do business and otherwise entertain ourselves. It has also provided many new avenues for book sharing and swapping amongst friends and strangers; even if the technology sometimes stands in the way. Thankfully there are several ways...