Bookish Diversions: Can Books Be Friends?
What Is a Book? Books as Companions, What We Learn from Books, One Strange Instructor, More
¶ What is a book? Amazon launched its Kindle ebook reader in 2007, which launched publishers into a tense period that challenged assumptions about the essential nature of their work. It may be hard to believe all these years later, but “What is a book?” became a vital question, one publishers asked themselves urgently, c…


