The “Amazon Problem” comes to the LBF
Greetings from London, where I’m at the London Book Fair meeting with publishers from around the world — who all want to speak about one thing: what they call the… 3 / Read more »
Supreme Court revisits First Sale doctrine
The Supreme Court yesterday agreed to hear a case that may revise the law’s understanding of the First Sale doctrine, with significant consequences for publishers. The court will hear an appeal… 2 / Read more »
Pulitzer jurors shocked by board’s decision
A point of clarification after yesterday’s post about the decision not to award anybody with the Pulitzer Prize for fiction this year: it was the Pulitzer Board that decided not… Read more »
A letter from Norman MacLean From James Joyce’s notebook Pynchon, philosophy, ethics The novels of Juan Jose Saer Who would be your fiction Pulitzer winner? Online pseudonyms Review of… Read more »
House nominates resolution honoring Ameen Rihani and The Book of Khalid
The Book of Khalid has a fascinating and important history starting with its place as the first Arab-American novel. Ameen Rihani’s sojourning tale of turn-of-the-century life in New York captures… Read more »
