Does The Cat in the Hat have geopolitical implications? NPR's Lynn Neary talks with author Louis Menand, who wrote "Cat People" in the Dec. 23 and Dec. 30 issues of The New Yorker.
Macmillan Publishers Ltd. will begin restricting sales of new e-books to libraries to one per library system for the first eight weeks after publication. Libraries are fighting back.
James Daunt, the new CEO of Barnes & Noble, began his career as an independent bookseller. He plans to use what he learned then to rejuvenate the country's biggest bookstore chain.