June 20, 2012

In a lengthy New Yorker dispatch on the Department of Justice lawsuit against Apple and five of America’s largest publishers Ken Auletta reports that almost no defense strategy is likely… 1 / 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

Appeal for arrested Iranian writers

Ellie Robins

Today is World Refugee Day, and thoughts turn to regimes that imprison their writers, forcing others into exile. Iran is one such regime, and PEN last week launched an appeal on… Read more »

ICANN opens up a can of worms

Sal Robinson

This spring, ICANN, the body that determines which domain names can be used on the Internet and which are out of bounds—last year they finally agreed to the domain name… Read more »

Mapping the Oz genome

Nick Davies

Earlier this week, Slate’s Lexicon Valley podcast examined the question of writers’ individual style and whether they are distinctive enough to be recognized. Intuition tells us that they should be, at… 2 / Read more »

A tribute to Ray Bradbury in internet error code

Ariel Bogle

Adam Sneed on Slate reports that Tim Bray, a developer advocate at Google is proposing that a new HTTP status code “451” — a reference to the Bradbury classic Fahrenheit 451… Read more »

Day in Review

Kevin Murphy

The short story that ruined a marriage Djuna Barnes: writer, illustrator, provocateur In the defense of self-promotion, even the shoot yourself kind Finding the right the in the publishing landscape… Read more »

Melville House Books

Legal scholar tells The New Yorker that DOJ case is unwinnable

Kelly Burdick