Booksellers

What will the book world be like in the 21st Century? How will books be published and what will be their contents? Will literature concern itself with much the same subjects as it does today? What will plays be like and the theater?

Hi Lifehacker, Are there any good ways of selling old books online? I tried AbeBooks who have a buyback program but they weren’t interested in most of my books. They did offer to buy one, but only for 30 cents. Thanks, Overbooked Picture by Thomas Abbs

See if this has a familiar ring: As an immense flood rolls down the Mississippi River, national news media accounts make it appear that Memphis is utterly submerged, sending local leaders into a dither to proclaim that the city is mostly high, dry and ope

FROM now on, I shall review a book from a publisher’s backlist every third Sunday. Backlists are older books that are still in print. There are many bookstores in Malaysia that ignore publishers’ backlists. I’m not sure why.

The Brookline Booksmith is charting a new course and adding a map department with the help of the Globe Corner Bookstore, which shuttered its Harvard Square shop last summer.