March 26, 2013

It’s difficult to pretend that the US copyright system is in good shape, or even particularly useful in its current incarnation. Although the full act has not been reformed… 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

After decades of adherence, Willa Cather’s estate violates her orders not to publish her letters

Nick Davies

Next month, Knopf will publish The Selected Letters of Willa Cather, a collection of correspondence from the notoriously private author of novels such as O Pioneers! and My Antonia, not to mention the novella Alexander’s… Read more »

Closing the “word gap”

Sal Robinson

From the “this is kind of weird, but ok, maybe?” department: the city of Providence, Rhode Island, has just won a $5 million grant in Bloomberg’s “Mayor’s Challenge” contest to… Read more »

Maintaining Mongolian Manuscripts: Mildew, Mismanagement, Megalomaniacal Monks

Dustin Kurtz

Earlier this year we pointed to the online furor over the precarious status of extensive and irreplaceable archves in the Malian city of Timbuktu. Early second-hand reports from that city’s… Read more »

Ron Hogan launches “The Handsell”

Kirsten Reach

The veteran New York book reporter and blogger Ron Hogan has recently launched The Handsell, a site that delivers book recommendations through video. Each episode features a different author or… Read more »

Melville House Books

US copyright chief calls for complete overhaul

Ariel Bogle