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An “academic spring” has broken out against scientific journal publisher Elsevier, says a New Scientist report by Jacob Aron. According to the report, “Inspired by a University of Cambridge mathematician,… Read more »

Nabokov admired one. Chekhov cuddled with one. E.B. White wrote poetry to them. Gary Shteyngart tweets about one. (Also: Warhol had two. Picasso drew one.) At The New York Daily News’s Page Views… 7 / Read more »

Anger at Penguin for pulling its new ebooks from distribution by the country’s main distributor to libraries continued to mount yesterday, despite the revelation that the move may have been… Read more »

Salon.com reports that by reducing  the amount of content it published in December and January, and by easing its dependence on aggregation, it actually increased its monthly traffic numbers. According… 1 / Read more »

A new start up called Booktrack is seeking to include sound effects and ambient soundtracks to back your favorite literary titles. A couple of things to make clear about this… 1 / Read more »

How to Write Love Poems That Don’t Suck Amanda Knox memoir: There’s a tough buy for a publisher The Beauty of the Printed Book In case you thought troubles with… Read more »