The Black Book really isn't a book and it's not even black. Originally bound by a black leather cover, it's now a shiny gray binder. It still strikes fear in nominees. When alleged mobster Stephen ...

Editors have told me that their sales departments say black covers don't sell. Sales reps have told me that many of their accounts won't take books with black covers. Booksellers have told me that ...

Toast Leather Cover for Surface Book – A mixed bag Here's what I can ... From my experience, I would steer away from black "stout" if I could do it over again and instead go for "scotch" or ...

“What?!? No! Is it really this hard? People sat down & had meetings & put a lot of energy & money into creating covers f/black people on books w/ the same old stories INSTEAD of promoting books ...

I used to be embarrassed that I often buy books based on ... we agreed that a good cover is unexpected and arrests you visually.” One notable example of this is Black Food by Bryant Terry ...

Following a backlash, Barnes & Noble said it's suspending a diversity effort to reissue 12 classic books with new covers depicting main characters as black. Critics called the new editions a form ...

There's the smell of the pages, the feel of the cover, the literal weight of the bound pages, which brings a tangible heft to the knowledge they contain. But purchasing a book bound in leather ...