January 16, 2014

Tuesday, the DC Circuit Federal Court of Appeals threw out the Federal Communications Commission rules maintaining net neutrality. Unless the FCC can find an internal work around, or unless they successfully… 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

James Frey gets $2 million for The Hunger Games 2: The Hungering

Alex Shephard

James Frey, a lying liar who lies and author of the hit memoir Eat, Pray, Love, is back. Last week, Deadline reported that Oprah’s ex-best friend sold a YA series, Endgame, to HarperCollins. On Monday, the… Read more »

Breaking translation news: Scandinavians invent animal-to-human-language translator

Sal Robinson

The Nordic Society for Invention and Discovery, a Scandinavian design firm/ad agency/creativity lab, is working on a new product that will revolutionize the one area of translation that even Google… Read more »

India’s first crowdsourced library offers delivery services to members

Claire Kelley

Pushpendra Pandya is a copywriter and librarian who has recently started a new project: a crowdsourced library that aims to provide a book sharing service to its members. Through the… Read more »

Building that holds famed Rizzoli Bookstore may be demolished

Kelly Burdick

As first noted by New York Times architecture critic Michael Kimmelman, the building that houses the famed Rizzoli Bookstore on 57th Street in Manhattan is in danger of being demolished.… Read more »

Melville House Books

A loss of net neutrality is a loss for literature

Dustin Kurtz