June 11, 2012 » MobyLives! Archives

B&N joins forces with superstar attorney to explain the obvious to the DOJ in a blunt, exhilarating letter

Dennis Johnson

Enough already about the BEA, an event held in New York City last week where a big chunk of the book industry stood around talking about Amazon and brooding over… 5 / 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

Operation What? Code names, new and old

Sal Robinson

Ah, code names! As readers of Trevor Paglen’s I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have To Be Destroyed By Me know, there’s nothing like squirreling around in the… 1 / Read more »

Celebrating the novella, all month long

The Emerging Writers Network is 11 days into its “Novella Month” campaign, which celebrates the novella as a literary genre and highlights contemporary as well as classic examples of this,… Read more »

No Plath + no Heaney = 35,000 panicked Irish students

Ellie Robins

It’s a wonder we couldn’t hear the panicked riffling of papers from New York. On Thursday of last week, 35,000 Irish students sat for their English lit Leaving Certificate paper,… Read more »

Canadian IP lobby gives SOPA a try

Ariel Bogle

Canada’s leading intellectual property lobby, the Canadian IP Council (CIPC), seems to be eagerly following the US down the SOPA rabbit hole. On his blog, IP law professor at the… Read more »

Day in Review

Kevin Murphy

2012’s Commonwealth Short-Story Prize winners How do employers really feel about social media? An extra hour of David Lynch’s “Blue Velvet” James Brown felt good about his egomania Revolutionizing the… Read more »