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Audiobooks: Every Minute Counts

Karl Berglund

People who use audiobooks are expanding what reading is and can be. But they are also incentivizing publishers to change, in unexpected ways.

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“Cheerfully Monstrous”: Dodie Bellamy on Writing and Grieving

Rhoda Feng
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What Is a Book?

Lisa Gitelman
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How to See Silicon Valley: Talking with Mary Beth Meehan and Fred Turner

Boima Tucker

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Manufacturing Goodness: What Administrators Really Do and Why

Jordan Harper
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If on a Winter’s Night a Reader…

Francesca Mancino
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The Saddest Cattle in the World: Atahualpa Yupanqui, Empire, and the Sound of Stolen Land

Alejandro Zuleta
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My Job Is to Fulfill Your Infantile Desire

Susan Zieger

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