Books

Touchstone magazine has started a new series: Book Returns. Here's how they describe it in a marketing e-mail they sent last night: > [In Book Returns,] we reevaluate some culturally significant books of the last forty years. Here are some of the upcoming contributions: > Syndicated columnist William

> Most of us have heard that 195,000 new titles were published in 2004 – a staggering 14 percent increase in one year. But most of those books don't sell very well. According to Nielsen BookScan, 93 percent of those new books sell less than 1000 copies a

> The New American Standard Bible has been widely acclaimed as “the most literally accurate translation” from the original languages. Millions of people have trusted the NASB, learning from it and applying it to the challenges of their daily lives. The updated NASB continues this commitment to accuracy, while increasing

I promised generous excerpts from Dalrymple's new book of essays, Our Culture, What's Left of It [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1566636434/thedailyeudem-20]. I haven't delivered the goods, mostly because my typist hasn't gotten around to keying-in the passages (at

I didn't realize that my Malcolm's Messages effort was part of a trend known as "Blooks." I don't know whether to take comfort or feel humiliated. > A blook is a book serialized on a blog site. That means you can subscribe

A few months ago, I ordered a used copy of Le Rochefoucauld's [http://charon.sfsu.edu/maximfolder/RochefoucauldBio.html]Maxims. Only $6.00. Unfortunately, the book dealer didn't mention that it was in French. Besides obscene hand gestures, I doesn't know any French, so