November 04, 2013 » MobyLives! Archives

A lawsuit filed last Thursday by a proxy for Apple and Microsoft could deal a sharp blow to Google, and might be a glimpse of the bare-knuckled future of competition between… 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

Crunchyroll inks simultaneous-publication manga deal

Sal Robinson

In an interesting bit of simultaneous-publication news, the American company Crunchyroll — which hosts live streaming anime and other TV shows on its website — has announced that it will… Read more »

Activist coloring book protests Russia’s anti-gay discrimination

In response to Russia’s laws against the distribution of gay “propaganda,” and in preparation for the upcoming Winter Olympics in Sochi, anti-discrimination group FCKH8 has announced that it will publish… Read more »

Queens Library now offers tablet lending

Claire Kelley

This past week, Google donated 17,000 Nexus 7 tablet devices to the New York State Community Action Association to mark the one year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy hitting New York. In… Read more »

T. S. Eliot Prize shortlist announced

Emma Aylor

On October 23, the T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize shortlist was released, after being culled from a longlist of 113 publisher-submitted collections of poetry. Chair of judges Ian Duhig remarked that,… Read more »

Melville House Books

November 4, 2013

Is the future of ebooks about to be decided by a judge in East Texas?

Dustin Kurtz