Full disclosure: I get most of my reading done on my Kindle ... director of books at Barnes & Noble, to learn why hardcover books come out before paperbacks. She gave me the inside scoop and ...

Reid's new book, which arrives to great anticipation on January 30, is Come and Get It, and it's a campus novel. (No spoilers of any significance, I promise.) It's about Millie, a young Black ...

Money is Come and Get It’s animating force. Its effects are particularly pronounced in the dorm: some students are on scholarships, some are cushioned by parental wealth, and some, like Millie ...

Her new novel, “Come and Get it,” showcases the banal and often petty world of a college dormitory on the University of Arkansas campus, detailing the pranks, sexual lives and power dynamics ...

This is especially true when the interloper is a professional observer, as she is in “Come and Get It.” The central catalyst is author Agatha Paul, a middle-aged, Chicago- based intellectual ...

But why do books come out in heavy, expensive hardback format first? The first books were bound with strong, rigid covers. Small print runs made them expensive luxuries. The paperback was ...

Why is that, especially considering making a hardback cover looks like it’d be more costly and time-consuming? “While a hardcover book is more expensive to print than a paperback, the ...