MobyLives is observing the Presidents Day holiday …
Dennis Johnson
Not that we’ve had a lot of presidents worth celebrating lately. But we’ll be back tomorrow. Enjoy the holiday, especially if you’re not a president.
Authors Guild joins list of major players drawing a line in the sand against “predatory” Amazon
Dennis Johnson
Add the Authors Guild to the list of major industry players taking a dramatic stand against Amazon.com for unfair business practices. Yesterday, the Guild issued a statement decrying the behemoth… 2 / Read more »
Hail & Farewell: Bookninja
Dennis Johnson
Canada’s coolest, smartest, and bestest literary website, Bookninja, is no more. Chief cook and bottle washer George Murray has admitted that the fact that he hasn’t posted anything for a… 5 / Read more »
FRIDAY CHALLENGE: Oulipo-inspired interactive fiction
Ellie Robins
big oak You are in a dense forest. To the East you can see a clearing. To the West, North, and South the forest continues, however the forest is to… 1 / Read more »
Court rules against web censorship for high school students
Valerie Merians
Good news out of the Jefferson City, MO, Federal District Court yesterday, according to this report from the American Civil Liberties Union: A federal district court ruled today that the… Read more »
The Banksy of public poetry
Christopher King
On days when the unending visual onslaught of urban life begins to feel overwhelming, some of us (we are probably all artists or designers) bemoan the state of our culture… Read more »
Day in Review
Dennis Johnson
Amazon to start paying taxes in Pennsylvania Sept. 1 Library Patrons Buy Books They Borrow, Study Says Linsane: Jeremy Lin gets a literary agent Author joins Open Road vs. HarperCollins… Read more »
