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Reading makes you smarter. But it's not just book smarts. Reading — and reading fiction, in particular — helps develop one's capacity for empathy, self-reflection, and theory of mind.

The first point in this compelling infographic suggests that reading books for more than 3.5 hours a week makes you 23% less likely to die. That's a pretty good deal!

We've created a series of videos to help our authors make the most of BookShop, our free bookselling platform available to all BookBaby authors.

The end of the year brings the inevitable lists of "top everythings" (guilty!) and retrospectives galore. This infographic goes a little deeper and takes a look at the reading habits of Americans in 2017.

This video gives instructions on how to format your book using Microsoft Word on a Mac. Interior Templates are also available on bookbaby.com.

You might not develop super powers if you read a book, but you are doing something good for yourself while doing something you love. How many habits can you say that about?

Emmy Award Winner Dawud Anyabwile is the owner of Big City Entertainment and the co-creator and illustrator of the self-published comic book, Brotherman: Revelation.