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Jane Friedman’s comeback idea after she was deposed as head of HarperCollins was a good one, no? Open Road Media’s basic idea was to simply put out ebooks of all… 6 / Read more »

Circa 167 B.C., the Roman playwright Publius Terentius Afer is said to have said “Nothing is said that has not been said before.” He probably wasn’t the first person to make this… 1 / Read more »

Salman Rushdie, author of the Satanic Verses and famously the target of a fatwah by the Ayatollah Khomeni, is once again at the center of another controversy, according to a… 2 / Read more »

Ever since he took over Waterstone’s, James Daunt has made a series of bold moves. First, there was his decision—see the earlier MobyLives report—to leave his position as an independent… 4 / Read more »

The Tournament of Books has begun Legendary bad  boys of literature Random House Canada buys McClelland & Stewart McDonald’s UK to sell books (sort of) Buy where you shop The… Read more »