Can things get worse for Barnes & Noble? In 2018, it comes across as a silly question. Decades removed from its heyday as the brutalizer of small bookshops—the inspiration for Tom Hanks’s soul-destroying monolith in You’ve Got Mail—the store is running on fumes. Its stock price sits at five dollars. Its high-profile attempts to compete with Amazon in e-commerce and e-books have been expensive failures. It has had four CEOs in the past five years, a period in which it has closed stores and laid off staff, including 1,800 in February.
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Why Is The Federal Government Threatening An Indie Book Publisher With $100,000 In Fines?

Along with his husband, James Jenkins runs Valancourt Books, an independent, print-on-demand publisher that specializes in reprinting long-lost works. Reflecting the couple’s eclectic tastes, Valancourt’s selection runs the gamut from obscure Gothic horror to forgotten queer literature. Its catalogue now has over 400 books in print, with the publisher adding roughly 20 new titles each year.
The couple has painstakingly typed out manuscripts from microfiches and rare print editions (including from the only surviving copy for some books), and converted them to digital formats. So when a customer orders a book, Valancourt will send the digital files to a printing vendor, who then prints a single-bound volume. “This way, the books stay in print indefinitely,” Jenkins explained.
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Bill Gates: These 3 books ‘opened a new world for me’

Bill Gates is an avid reader. The Microsoft co-founder reads every night, has reviewed hundreds of books on his blog and regularly shares lists of his favorite books. He often credits books likes these for helping him understand new perspectives and even changing his priorities.
In one blog post, Gates writes about meeting with famed epidemiologist Dr. Bill Foege, a long-time mentor who sparked the tech billionaire’s interest in global health by way of a reading list years ago.
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