Books

Indigo Books profit falls on lower margins

8 Feb 2012

TORONTO (Reuters) - Indigo Books & Music Inc reported lower quarterly earnings on Wednesday as discounts on print books and higher sales of low-margin e-readers pushed down gross profit margin even as revenue rose slightly. The company said the lower margins had not yet been offset by an expected gain in the sales of gifts and toys, which the company is putting more emphasis on. For the company ...

Books or e-Books? Who cares as long as people are reading

7 Feb 2012

AS sales of paper books drop, writer Adele Parks says how we read doesn't matter

Books: ‘An Available Man,’ by Hilma Wolitzer

7 Feb 2012

Hilma Wolitzer’s funny, wise and touching new novel is about Edward Schuyler, a 62-year-old science teacher, recently widowed, who finds himself relentlessly pursued by women: single women, divorced women, a woman who is married to one of his close friends, even a woman he loved in his 20s and planned to marry — until she left him waiting at the altar. Many of these women are friendly and ...