Nov 13th, 2008 · The Miami International Book Fair is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. Co-founder Mitchell Kaplan owns the Miami bookstore Books and Books and is past president of the American Booksellers Association. He tells Ari Shapiro that he helped start the fair to combat the idea that Miami wasn't a literary town.
May 1st, 2008 · After two dozen years as one of America's best and most glamorous bookstores, Dutton's Books, in the tony Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, is no more.
Nov 12th, 2007 · Canadian booksellers are suffering with the rapid rise in value of the Canadian dollar. The majority of books are "dual-priced" -- they list both a U.S. price and a Canadian price, and the latter is always higher. Despite the rise of the Canadian dollar, booksellers haven't been able to persuade publishers or distributors to reduce the price disparity. Audrey's Books in Edmonton recently announced it would charge U.S. prices for dual-priced books. Melissa talks with co-owner Steve Budnarchuk.
Jun 5th, 2007 · An extraordinary collection of historical letters has been found in a filing cabinet tucked away in a Swiss laundry room. Thomas Venning, director of Books and Manuscripts at Christie's of London, talks about the collection of almost 1,000 documents, including a love letter written by Napoleon.
Apr 3rd, 2007 · Janet Browne talks about the life of Charles Darwin. Her new book, Darwin's Origin of Species, takes a look at the English naturalist and his theory of evolution. The biography is the latest in a series called "Books that Changed the World."
Jan 19th, 2007 · Book critic Maureen Corrigan's memoir about her lifelong love of reading is Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books. This interview originally aired on Sep. 12, 2005.
Jun 19th, 2006 · Changing times along the strip just off Berkeley's campus have lead to the decline of local businesses along the strip, including the scheduled closure of a landmark store, Cody's Books.
Feb 8th, 2006 · Yale historian John Lewis Gaddis wrote seminal books about the Cold War, during the Cold War. In his book, The Cold War: A New History, Gaddis discusses why the West won, and how it shaped the world.