Book Awards 

National Book Critics Circle Annual Awards

Congratulations to General Nonfiction winner Nicholson Baker.

The debate goes on 

Ted Padova started it with Where are we headed with eBooks?

The responses:

Printed books have a few years yet by Kas Thomas

Practicality vs. Necessity by Bryan Guignard

The future brings with it both good and bad by Peter Zelchenko

World Book Day 

Tomorrow is World Book Day

Book burning halted at last minute 

Down-to-Wire Deal Heads Off Book Burn by Dana Hedgpeth

Victor Kamkin Inc., the Rockville bookstore that became a mecca for those in search of materials on the Soviet Union during the Cold War, got a three-week reprieve yesterday. Its eviction was delayed so that officials from the Library of Congress may pore through the bookseller's 1 million-piece collection to determine what should be saved.

Minutes before the books were to be thrown into two green, 10-ton dumpsters and taken to an incinerator, the store's owner and landlord stood in the parking lot to announce a last-minute deal.

Igor Kalageorgi, owner of the 50-year-old bookseller, said he would pay his landlord, Allen Kronstadt, $10,000 in rent -- raised from sales made last weekend after hundreds of customers came to his store -- to stay in the 20,000-square-foot warehouse off Boiling Brook Parkway.

After exchanging accusations in front of a crowd earlier, the two stepped inside to hastily broker the deal. When they emerged 15 minutes later, they awkwardly shook hands in front of TV cameras. [read more]

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