In the latest installment of our art series, here's a look New Jersey artisan Steven B. Levine, who crafts beautiful books from wood. They can have hidden drawers or engraved titles, and can be arranged in stacks or as shelves.

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Books As Art: Steven B. Levine's Wood Works (The Huffington Post)

NMS will market the Espresso Book Machine(R) to the collegiate marketplace and permission academic content.

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NACS Media Solutions and On Demand Books Form Partnership (PR Newswire via Yahoo! News)

Just as prices for collectible comics are rocketing to new highs with the sales of two comic books for $1 million each, longtime comic collector and roleplaying-game trailblazer Stewart Wieck unveiled a new comic-auction site called GetSlabbed.com.

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New Comic Auction Site Launches As Comic Books Set Record Prices (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)

Despite his reputation as the mainstream representation of the outcast, Tim Burton is no stranger to box office records. This weekend was another trip to the record books as Alice in Wonderland propelled to $116.3 million.

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Scott Mendelson: Weekend Box Office Review: Alice in Wonderland Returns Tim Burton to Box Office Record Book (The Huffington Post)

THE PEOPLE pounding the pavements above are oblivious, but under the streets of central Auckland lies a vault holding comic books of such worth that they have been brought out of their secure holding only three times in the past eight years.

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Comics good as gold (Stuff)

Susan Inman's memoir is a must read for any family faced with schizophrenia, and for our health system, too.

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'After Her Brain Broke' (in Tyee Books) (The Tyee)

CDJapan is an online shop that offers Japanese entertainment products including CDs, DVDs, Blu-rays, anime characters, and fashion items.

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CDJapan Launches New Online Bookstore to Offer the Latest Japanese Books, Photo Albums, and Manga Comics Straight From ... (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)

Kids might never have been so quiet. Today more than 6,000 Columbia Public Schools elementary students stopped what they were doing and read for 15 minutes as part of Read Across America, sponsored by the National Education Association.

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Classrooms silent in rare event (Columbia Daily Tribune)

Two parts of an ancient biblical manuscript separated across centuries and continents were reunited for the first time in a joint display Friday, thanks to an accidental discovery that is helping illuminate a dark period in the history of the Hebrew Bible.

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Pieces of rare biblical manuscript reunited (AP via Yahoo! News)

(JTA) -- Several rare early American Jewish books will be auctioned in New York. Among the offerings at next month's sale by Swann Auction Galleries is an early Jewish-American cookbook and the first Hebrew Bible printed on American soil.

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Early American Jewish books to be auctioned (JTA)