As journalists examine the year in publishing, their minds turn to both the Best Books of the Year and the Worst. These cantankerous lists invariably include popular books that helped keep the publishing industry afloat during this long recession.

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As that video reveals, bricks-and-mortar bookstores received an online boost from Google yesterday, as the search company unveiled a new program called Favorite Places on Google.

With the program, 100,000 popular business around the country will receive "Favorite Place" status--receiving a special QR barcode decal. They can post the sticker outside the business and customers can scan the barcode with a smartphone to get more information from Google about the store. The Google Goggles function is building a growing library of visual searching tools as well.

Our digital sibling, eBookNewser, wrote about the implications for bookstores. Here's more: "Want to find...

In an recent interview about his book, journalist Nick Reding (pictured) railed against publishers' misconception that people in the Midwest don't read books. While promoting his recent book, "Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town," he told the magazine that...

Today's Featured Book of the Day is Prosperity Now! Daily Affirmations for the Completeness of Prosperous Living by Shawna Marie Aarons-Cooke.

A little book filled with lots of inspiration to receive success in your life. The idea of this book is to remind you to live fully each...

From Bue: Just today a new free 'solidarity university' was announced in Vienna in a squatted university building as a spillover from the general student protests there. They have already established a lot of international links and seem very enthusiastic about the project, though so far I haven't found any sources who are able to clearly formulate what their ideas and plans are. But of course this is something completely new. By the way I recommend the edu-factory mail-list, which has all sorts of stuff around global university politics, including news, manifestoes and heated debates. René: Addition to online lectures: Prof. Helen Graham's inauguarl lecture 'Border Crossings: Thinking...

1. Find a friend with a successful blog and tell him you'll take it over for two weeks, then get quiet and a little lazy and all but ignore the blog on your first day. 2. Make lima bean soup....

Early last week, I realized I have too much time on my hands. I realized this because I Googled "tiger woods voicemail slow jam remix." Obviously, the only rehabilitation for having become the sort of person who Googles "tiger woods...

When is an eBook not an book? Over at GalleyCat's digitally obsessed sibling, eBookNewser, they reported on a eBook update to an old classic.

Here's more from the post: "iPhone app developer Oceanhouse Media has announced the release of three Seuss Enterprises-licensed apps based on the...

Many are asking: How will publishing survive this recession? But maybe we should be asking something else: How did publishing survive the Great Depression?

Digital book blogger Mike Cane aggregated a stream of Great Depression research, highlighting some innovative solutions...