Penguin, Macmillan answer DOJ lawsuit, accuse the Justice Department of siding with “monopolist retailer Amazon”

Six weeks after the Department of Justice filed an antitrust suit against Apple and five of New York’s Big Six publishers, the two standing publisher defendants, Penguin and Macmillan, formally5 / Read more »

Israeli book price wars

There’s been a new development in the ongoing debates in Israel over book-pricing. As Haaretz reports, about 270 authors, including heavyweights Amos Oz, A.B. Yehoshua, and David Grossman, have sentRead more »

Day in Review

Song of Achilles wins 2012 Orange Prize What death really says is: THINK Art as the great divider  What happens when you read Vonnegut as an adult? Authors discuss theirRead more »

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