March 27, 2013

Barnes & Noble announced Friday that it would be giving away Nook e-readers beginning on Sunday and lasting until the end of March. They’re offering a free Nook Simple e-ink… Read more »

Booksellers & bookselling

Ask a bookseller---Book Court's Bonnie Chau — Melville House
Customer threatens Northshire Bookstore for displaying the Qur’an — Kait Howard
Isis Books & Gifts changes signage, dodges blind wrath of ignorant brick-throwers — Simon Reichley
Barnes & Noble takes penultimate step to exiting Queens — Liam O'Brien

The bizarre pursuit of Amanda Knox: injustice Italian style

Edward Jay Epstein

On March 25, 2013, the Court of Cassation, Italy’s highest court of appeal, overturned the acquittal of Amanda Knox. The comely Knox was a 20-year-old American exchange student in Perugia… Read more »

Random House profits up 75% on Fifty Shades sales

Kelly Burdick

I was wrong. Last July I predicted that massive sales of E.L. James’ Fifty Shades trilogy might double Random House profits in 2012. Well, the numbers are finally out—and last… Read more »

SF Chronicle employees protest new Hearst Corp. healthcare plan

Sal Robinson

Employees at the San Francisco Chronicle (which announced last week that it will move some of its content behind a paywall) have taken to Twitter and Facebook to protest a new… Read more »

The French ebook revolution

Nick Davies

While the French have been slower than Americans to take to the digital books revolution, Fabrice Neuman argues that publishers and other businesses in France are not only catching on, but… Read more »

Melville House Books

Scrying the future in the screen of a free Nook

Dustin Kurtz