May 07, 2013 » MobyLives! Archives

When they announced last year that they would go DRM-free, Pan Macmillian’s science fiction imprint Tor/Forge took a stand against a feature of most ebooks that customers hate but that… Read more »

Publishing

Barnes & Noble takes penultimate step to exiting Queens — Liam O'Brien
Fifth employee connected to Hong Kong bookstore goes missing — Liam O'Brien
After removing its books from Amazon, children’s publisher reports record profits — Kait Howard
Castaway Jose Salvador Alvarenga denies eating his companion — Taylor Sperry

B&N shoots self in foot, bellows at consumers “Are you happy now?”

Dustin Kurtz

Barnes & Noble made two announcements this week sure to delight everyone invested in the Nook—with the exception of those who have actually invested in the Nook. B&N has discounted… Read more »

New York taxi drivers read their poetry at PEN World Voices Festival

It’s not surprising that cab drivers would meet a wide variety of saucy characters over the course of their careers, and overhear or participate in countless conversations with strangers that… Read more »

Finally, a self-published bestseller worth reading: @Seinfeld2000’s The Apple Store

Alex Shephard

Self-published books are typically pretty terrible and books adapted from Twitter accounts have, historically, been entirely terrible. But last month the person (or people) behind “@Seinfeld2000″ released their debut novel, The Apple Store and it is, astonishingly, both hilarious… Read more »

Bourbon and beasts: Hunter S. Thompson & Ralph Steadman at The Kentucky Derby

Kirsten Reach

Kentucky Derby weekend (and the hangover that punctuates its end) marks the anniversary of the first collaboration between Hunter S. Thompson and illustrator Ralph Steadman. In “The Kentucky Derby is… Read more »

Melville House Books

May 7, 2013

Losing DRM hasn’t hurt Tor’s profits

Ariel Bogle