Book Magazine (later retitled
Barnes & Noble Presents Book) was an American bi-monthly popular
literary magazine founded in 1998 by Mark Gleason and Jerome Kramer and published by West Egg Communications. Described by its editor as "the
Rolling Stone—not the
Billboard—of the book industry",
MediaBistro.com said it was "also the
Us Weekly of the industry, offering up juicy tidbits of what passes for gossip in this relatively respectable trade", noting for prospective writers that it was aimed at "enthusiastic leisure readers". The
New York Times said
Book "profiles authors and their works in much the way that
People magazine reports on celebrities".