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On the rise (and fall) of the Japanese cell phone novel in the early 2000s (and the its attendant moral panic). | Lit Hub Technology
Josh Cook, bookseller and founder of the Porter Square Review of Books, explores why booksellers are stepping in as book criticism disappears. | Lit Hub In Conversation
“Put simply, people don’t buy books. They buy holograms, and they hope the book matches up.” What happens when the idea of a book supersedes the book itself in the eyes of readers. | Lit Hub Criticism
