April 24, 2012

Here’s a juicy tidbit from the Department of Justice suit against Apple and five of the country’s largest book publishers: despite weeks of negotiations over agency pricing between Apple and… Read more »

The DOJ's publishers lawsuit

MobyLives’ coverage of the DOJ lawsuit

Leading booksellers and authors' groups join together to file pro-Apple petition with Supreme Court — Simon Reichley
Apple generously offers government one last chance to do the right thing — Liam O'Brien
Apple loses antitrust appeal — Alex Shephard
Apple's appeal: Hey, did anyone in the government notice that Amazon owned 90% of the ebook market? — Kirsten Reach

John Irving doesn’t like Hemingway. Might Hemingway return the compliment?

Valerie Merians

This post over at The Atlantic pointed us to John Irving’s interview, below, promoting his new book, In One Person. In it Irving talks about the writers he loves, and… 6 / Read more »

Facebook supports the new SOPA

Ariel Bogle

A new bill, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011 (CISPA), is re-igniting the fight SOPA started. This time, however, there are new and worrying battlelines. According to Dan… Read more »

Enter the Storyverse

Ellie Robins

Most avid readers would readily admit to having an obsessive side. A tech startup, Small Demons, aims to appeal to, nay manipulate, those literary obsessions, and the idea behind it… 1 / Read more »

World Book Night

Nick Davies

Last night was World Book Night. In communities across the U.S. and beyond, people and groups organized efforts to give out free copies of various books in what Anna Quindlen, an… Read more »

Day in Review

Kevin Murphy

Richard Prince’s The Catcher in the Rye Scientific metaphors Lillian Hellman, one difficult woman Humming along to Henry Mancini Criticism’s unbearable rightness Paris, 1992 Tolstoy vs. Dostoevsky Zen and the… Read more »

Melville House Books

Agency Pricing: Did Amazon see it coming?

Kelly Burdick