November 21, 2012

Or simply an attempt to shift focus from the UK media imbroglio … Read more »

Marco Rubio’s An American Son is a memoir, but is it also an ethics violation? — Mark Krotov
Uproar over publication of Haruki Murakami's high school library records — Liam O'Brien
FSG publishing anonymously authored Silicon Valley satire---all 18 pages of it — Ena Brdjanovic
Are financial scammers really turning to Neil Strauss' The Game for guidance? — Liam O'Brien

Requiem for Norma

Ellie Robins

There’s been no shortage of publishing news sensations in the past year. While the anglophones among us reel from the news of the Penguin/Random merger, book types in Latin America… Read more »

Waterstones takes self-sabotage to new heights

Waterstones CEO James Daunt is fast proving himself a late-blooming phenom of abysmal retail ideas. Daunt was interviewed by Bookseller editor Philip Jones this week, and one detail from that interview,… Read more »

Little Free Libraries banned — or at least, put in the back yard

Sal Robinson

In what can only be described as a fairly dick move, the town of Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, has decided to ban Little Free Libraries, the most adorable manifestation of libraries… 1 / Read more »

Turning the page … to a new patent for Apple

Claire Kelley

Last Friday, Nick Bilton declared “Apple Now Owns the Page Turn” in a post on the New York Times Bits blog, referring to a new patent giving rights to the finger… Read more »

Melville House Books

News Corp. in talks to acquire Simon & Schuster?

Ariel Bogle