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On Monday, prestigious German publishing house Suhrkamp initiated insolvency protection proceedings, which a number of observers liken to the U.S.’s Chapter 11. According to The Bookseller, Suhrkamp’s spokesperson, Tanja Postpischil, said that the application… Read more »

This month, workers at the former Republic Windows and Doors factory in Chicago celebrated the opening of their own cooperatively-run business, now named New Era Windows Cooperative. As chronicled live… Read more »

In a new video created for the Inside Random House series, which takes viewers behind the scenes at the publisher’s offices, book designers explain their creative processes and the unique… Read more »

A signed letter from 1895, in which Rudyard Kipling says he plagiarized other works in writing The Jungle Book, is up for auction. The lines Kipling may have borrowed appear… Read more »

2013 has already seen Baz Luhrmann’s controversial adaptation of The Great Gatsby; adaptations of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing and Dickens’ Great Expectations are forthcoming. At the Cannes Film Festival last week, actor/student/blogger/artist/musician/professor/writer/director James… Read more »