June 04, 2013 » MobyLives! Archives

The publishers are out, and only Apple is left facing down the Department of Justice in what may prove to be a defining case for the ebook market. After five… Read more »

The DOJ's publishers lawsuit

MobyLives’ coverage of the DOJ lawsuit

Leading booksellers and authors' groups join together to file pro-Apple petition with Supreme Court — Simon Reichley
Apple generously offers government one last chance to do the right thing — Liam O'Brien
Apple loses antitrust appeal — Alex Shephard
Apple's appeal: Hey, did anyone in the government notice that Amazon owned 90% of the ebook market? — Kirsten Reach

Won’t someone think of the BEA orphans?

Dustin Kurtz

With Book Expo America over for another year, booksellers from across the nation have headed back to sweep accumulated tumbleweed out of their stores, publishers have returned to their jewel-encrusted… Read more »

Baileys replaces Orange as sponsor for women’s fiction prize

Nick Davies

The Women’s Prize for Fiction has undergone some changes recently, having lost its funding from telephone company Orange last year (and thus changed its name from the Orange Prize), and… Read more »

Silver Linings Chapbook: things looking up for poetry

Abigail Grace Murdy

Last week, indie UK publisher Salt announced it would no longer publish single-author poetry collections, as poetry sales have fallen by 25% this past year. Every few weeks, it seems,… Read more »

Fighting the blank page: how famous writers stopped procrastinating

Michael Seidlinger

Do you tell people you’re writing a novel? It might be better to go with something like, “I am trying to write a novel,” because if you are indeed tackling… Read more »

Melville House Books

June 4, 2013

Apple is going to fight: The DOJ case begins

Ariel Bogle and Kirsten Reach