March 21, 2013

First, Penguin told the Justice Department to “Bring it on” — it was going to stand firm against the government’s bizarre price-fixing lawsuit even when most of the others charged… Read more »

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What Would Leopold Bloom Do? Ask him yourself in our new advice column — Josh Cook
BREAKING NEWS: Amazon "declares war" on book industry — Dennis Johnson
The Amanda Knox circus---again — Edward Jay Epstein
Some people never learn: Johnson & Merians start a new company ... Melville House UK — admin

Amazon and the CIA

Kelly Burdick

A report by FCW (“The Business of Federal Technology”) says that “the CIA has agreed to a cloud computing contract” with Amazon “worth up to $600 million over 10 years.”… Read more »

New conduct code at Library and Archives Canada muzzles employees and demands “loyalty” to the government

Sal Robinson

Oh, Canada, Canada, Canada. A furor has erupted there in the past few days over a new code of conduct issued by Library and Archives Canada, which is the governmental… Read more »

Hiding hundreds of pieces of book art in books themselves

Dustin Kurtz

San Francisco artist Boethius has been leaving lovely and unsettling works of art in the pages of books in indie bookstores across that city. Each drawing is done on a… Read more »

Grammar War declared in Britain: first Waterstones, now Mid Devon street signs

Kirsten Reach

The township of Mid Devon is working to ban apostrophes from its street signs, the Telegraph reports. Three street signs in Devon will be affected: Beck’s Square and Blundell’s Avenue… Read more »

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Penguin opts for a jury of its peers

Dennis Johnson