Lynn Neary  

By Lynn Neary
Publishers and booksellers are looking for new ways to compete with the Goliath of online retailers. Just before Christmas, Amazon infuriated booksellers with an app that allowed customers to check out prices in brick and mortar stores and then get a discount if they bought from Amazon instead.

By Lynn Neary
Brian Selznick's cinematic approach to storytelling is an artful experiment in narrative and illustration. Writing and drawing his books, he says, is "like going through a treasure map backwards."

By Lynn Neary
This fall, Random House will publish a collection of Dr. Seuss stories that were previously only known to Seuss scholars and collectors. Lynn Neary reports on the origins of 'The Bippolo Seed.'

By Lynn Neary
With tablets and smartphones taking over the market, children's books have had to adapt. NPR's Lynn Neary takes on the new world of kids' publishing and how it is affecting the way our children read.

By Lynn Neary
In The Lover's Dictionary, young adult author David Levithan tackles the grownup material of love and squalor, piece by piece, in a dictionary format. 

By Lynn Neary
These days, more and more home chefs are using their laptops and iPhones to find recipes -- and they are using traditional cookbooks less and less. Lynn Neary reports on the cooking app craze and how it will affect the future of food publishing.

By Lynn Neary
In his new novel, Sunset Park, Brooklyn novelist Paul Auster confronts the modern day problems of foreclosure, eviction and familial estrangement.