September 24, 2013

In all the recent furor over authors posting false or misleading reviews of their books on Amazon or other sites, one thing has been missing: the suggestion that such practices… Read more »

Amazon

After removing its books from Amazon, children’s publisher reports record profits — Kait Howard
Amazon picks up The Last Tycoon adaptation, casts Kelsey Grammer in lead — Liam O'Brien
Book spotted in San Bernardino shooting suspects' home inspires Amazon review battle — Liam O'Brien
Amazon shows New Jersey a thing or two about traffic — Liam O'Brien

Ghanian poet and professor Kofi Awoonor killed at Westgate Mall

Kirsten Reach

Kofi Awoonor, a Ghanian poet, was killed last weekend alongside sixty-one other people in the deadly standoff at Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya. He was seventy-eight. His son, Afetfi, was wounded… Read more »

“Whitman And Wilde Almost Certainly Had Sex”

Emma Aylor

The Toast’s Mallory Ortberg wrote last week on the potential hookup between Walt Whitman and Oscar Wilde during Wilde’s 1882 lecture tour of the U.S. (On a side note, let’s hope that… Read more »

Ladies, looks are everything

Amy Conchie

Dear authoresses, In case you missed The New Yorker’s gentle reminder last Friday, it would behoove you to keep in mind that, beyond your ability to weave a delicate sentence… Read more »

New Russian bookstores are “glittering” bastions of independence

Nick Davies

It seems that independent bookstores are thriving in Russia, adopting a business model that emphasizes the strengths of small stores. Alena Tveritina reports for Russia Beyond the Headlines that several… Read more »

Melville House Books

Astroturf just got pricey: the escalating war on false reviews

Dustin Kurtz