Welcome to Against the Grain

Against the Grain (ISSN: 1043-2094) is your key to the latest news about libraries, publishers, book jobbers, and subscription agents. It is a unique collection of reports on the issues, literature, and people that impact the world of books and journals. ATG is published on paper six times a year, in February, April, June, September, and November and December/January.

Against the Grain News Channel is primarily intended to be a collaborative resource for subscribers to the journal or attendees to the Charleston Conference. In reality, just any book aficionado is welcome to join this community! We are continuously trading ideas and adding new content to this site.

This site is a work in progress, and due to its collaborative nature we intend it to always stay that way! We are slowly distributing usernames for all our print subscribers; if you are interested in getting a username please get in touch with the site administrator.

Thanks to all those who attended the 2008 Charleston Conference! Please visit the Conference page to view PowerPoint presentations and more.


Vote here to participate in our latest survey on budgeting. We want to know how the ecomonic crisis is affecting your library!

Vote here for our poll concerning Amazon's Kindle. Also, check out the new Forum discussing the use of Kindles by libraries. We would love to hear from you on this topic!


Please click here for the eBook Rollout. We are working hard to update this on a regular basis, so stay tuned!