June 17, 2013

On January 20, 2010, three Apple executives and two from Macmillan had a fancy Manhattan dinner, a dinner at which the DOJ says the conspiracy to raise ebook prices was… 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

Meet the artists documenting America’s secret trials

Christopher King

With media attention focused almost exclusively this week on the NSA leaker Edward Snowden, currently evading criminal charges in Hong Kong, it’s easy to forget that closer to home, another… Read more »

Controversy erupts as “undiscovered” Joyce manuscript is published just in time for Bloomsday

Claire Kelley

Ithys Press, a small publisher in Ireland, is publishing a collection of sketches, fables, and fragments by James Joyce under the title Finn’s Hotel to coincide with this year’s Bloomsday celebration… Read more »

The Navy goes all e.e. cummings on us

Sal Robinson

A significant shift in naval communications protocol happened this April: the U.S. Navy, which since the nineteenth century has issued all of its official communications in all capital letters, authorized… Read more »

Trailer for J.D. Salinger documentary released

Nick Davies

This is a big year for literature in films, between the overblown Baz Luhrmann Great Gatsby and the much more appealing take on Much Ado About Nothing by Joss Whedon hitting… Read more »

Melville House Books

The dinner that launched a DOJ lawsuit

Ariel Bogle