The owners of J.W. Beecroft Books & Coffee in Superior, Wisconsin, have told Publishers Weekly that they'll be closing at the end of the year. Books will go on sale at half-price starting November 5. The bookstore is the only one in Superior and was a great site for book readings and other events for … Continue reading JW Beecroft Closing

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The venerable Library of Congress can't locate a whopping thirteen percent of its collection. (The number was originally 17%, but a subsequent review found that four percent of the collection was checked out, misshelved, or otherwise unavailable.) With 130 million volumes in the institution, that means that 16.9 million of them are AWOL. Read the … Continue reading 87% There