March 24, 2009

The University of Michigan Press, one of the country’s leading university presses, announced yesterday that it is going to shift from releasing its books in traditional print format to releasing… Read more »

HarperCollins does it first:Ends use of traditional catalogs that were, er, you know, printed

Dennis Johnson

It’s something technofiles have been chiding the publishing business about getting onto, even as some booksellers and others oppose it. And yes, it will save a lot of trees, but… Read more »

Condition of the market: Better than a hot stick in the eye, says perky UK correspondent

Melville House

A brief sanity check amidst the thunderbolts: the publishing market is not in terminal decline. That’s the optimist’s take on today’s news from The Bookseller, anyway. Catherine Neilan writes that… Read more »

Borders UK’s ebook odyssey is over — or, as they might say, oVer — for now

Dennis Johnson

Borders UK is abandoning its attempt — launched not all that long ago, to great fanfare — to sell its own ebook reader, according to a report by James Thompson… Read more »

Vive la France

Dennis Johnson

The French government has stepped in to prevent Yale University from buying the papers of the late Guy Debord. In fact, it bought “almost everything he ever produced from the… Read more »

Melville House Books

U Mich now e-Mich

Dennis Johnson

HarperCollins does it first:Ends use of traditional catalogs that were, er, you know, printed

Dennis Johnson

Condition of the market: Better than a hot stick in the eye, says perky UK correspondent

Melville House

Borders UK’s ebook odyssey is over — or, as they might say, oVer — for now

Dennis Johnson

Vive la France

Dennis Johnson