March 11, 2013

One lawyer’s passion for Sherlock Holmes has staked him against Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s rather litigious estate, and placed him squarely in the ongoing debate over literary estate overreach and… Read more »

Mein Kampf to be published in Germany for the first time since 1945 — Simon Reichley
Who wrote Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl? — Taylor Sperry
Author accuses 60 Minutes of stealing idea from his book — Julia Fleischaker
This week in legislative ineptitude: State of Georgia wildly misconstrues purpose and meaning of the word "copyright", sues man for helping people understand the law of the land — Simon Reichley

New Random House ebook-only imprint de-listed by the SFWA

Dustin Kurtz

Those rad-hardened spun-toroid regions of the internet that concern themselves with science fiction publishing were nearly all talking about a single story this past weekend. The Science Fiction Writers of… Read more »

Publishers fighting Amazon over .book domain

Nick Davies

Publishers Weekly reported on its website last week that American publishers are up in arms over Amazon’s intention to take over the .book domain for its exclusive use. This comes in… Read more »

Discussing the Novella at AWP 2013

Claire Kelley

Last Thursday at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference in Boston, about 300 people crowded into a packed room for a panel titled “What a Novella is.” The… Read more »

A cover art history of The Great Gatsby

Abigail Grace Murdy

Books with Leonardo DiCaprio on the cover usually take me back to Scholastic book fairs at my elementary school where, in the wake of Titanic, every girl except me lined up to buy titles like Lovin’ Leo,… Read more »

Melville House Books

Sherlock Holmes estate charged with “copyfraud”

Ariel Bogle