July 19, 2012

There’s been a development in the case of the Department of Justice versus the book industry, and it’s a doozie: Charles Schumer, the senior senator from New York 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

Book industry alive and kicking, new report reports

Valerie Merians

Bookstats, a cooperative venture between the Association of American Publishers and the Book Industry Study Group to crunch book industry data, has announced the release of its annual survey of… Read more »

Porn and the classics

Ellie Robins

And now for an important round-up of erotica, the driving force of the literary industry since the E.L. James spring of 2012, when publishers of all other types of literature… Read more »

Somewhere in France, the Anglomaniacs meet the Germans: Nina Katchadourian’s Sorted Books Project

Sal Robinson

Nina Katchadourian is an artist who photographs the covers or spines of certain books next to each other, so that the titles form a connected series. Such as: Katchadourian has… Read more »

Day in Review

Kevin Murphy

Stephen Fry does Shakespeare Just do a Facebook search McSweeney’s vs. BuzzFeed Ebooks on the rise Watch the Mosaic Man at work Who’s doing the talking here? Snubbing books snobs… Read more »

Melville House Books

Schumer breaks ranks with Obama to condemn DOJ lawsuit

Dennis Johnson