December 04, 2013 » MobyLives! Archives

Following the field of textbook costs has been like watching the Titanic heading for the iceberg for a long time now. It’s a giant teetering business model that appears to… Read more »

Education

The scientific theory behind what makes Dr. Seuss funny — Zeljka Marosevic
Tea Party chair calls for UN fund-raising book by Kermit the Frog to be banned — Taylor Sperry
Uproar over publication of Haruki Murakami's high school library records — Liam O'Brien
A new pronoun in the Mx. — Taylor Sperry

Oxford and the Vatican launch digitization project

Nick Davies

The Vatican City Library and the Bodleian Libraries at Oxford University will soon be able to offer access to many of their rare and ancient texts online, thanks to a… Read more »

Three Salinger stories “leaked” online

Kirsten Reach

Three stories by J.D. Salinger, known but unpublished in accordance with the author’s wishes, were uploaded to What.cd last week. Within two hours, the news hit Reddit, and the “locked”… Read more »

University of Kent forced to apologise for insulting children’s literature

The University of Kent has been forced to apologise after it accidentally insulted books written for children on the website for its Creative Writing course. The Centre of Creative Writing… Read more »

Waterstones names Stoner, which was first published in 1965, their Book of the Year 2013

Julia Fleischaker

Authors, take heart. The recognition you deserve could just be a few decades delayed. Case in point: John Williams’s 1965 novel, Stoner, which was just picked as Waterstones’ Book of… Read more »

Melville House Books

December 4, 2013

New bill in Congress may make textbooks free

Sal Robinson