Book Culture

New semester, new books, new ways to save dough

A rundown of coursebook options and costs

Textbook vendors compete for customers

As the textbook-buying season comes to a close, students and professors are completing their search for the cheapest books in the neighborhood and on the Internet.

Book Culture employees question their treatment

Employees have learned not to judge Book Culture by its cover.

Book Culture eyes expansion

Book Culture owner Chris Doeblin says negotiations with Columbia University to expand his business into Morningside Bookshop's previous home are "very advanced."

The independent alternative

Throughout their history, independent booksellers have been an important force in the development of literature and counterculture, cultivating the works of independent authors and poets.

Students Tighten Belts as Textbook Prices Hit Wallets

As the class shopping period comes to a close, Columbia students face an even greater shopping challenge as they empty their pockets to pay for textbooks.

CU Students Hit the Books on Broadway

Bookstores in Morningside Heights are not hard to come by, but with such a vast array of choices for all types of readers, there’s no reason not to try a new one on for size.

J-School Prof Gives Talk on Subversive Role of Comics

Columbia Journalism School professor and author David Hajdu spoke about his new book, The Ten-Cent Plague, in an interview last night at Book Culture.

Labyrinth Gets a Summer Makeover

If you’re headed to Labyrinth to purchase books this week, get ready for a few surprises. The store as all at Columbia have known it for the past 10 years has undergone a major makeover.