January 17, 2014

UK creative industries are growing faster than the economy as a whole, outperforming other industries

Here’s something you don’t hear every day. Official statistics published on Tuesday have revealed that the UK’s creative industries, which include publishing as well as advertising, film, music and galleries,… Read more »

Arts & Culture

Protesting sexism, comic book artists pull out of running for Angoulême Grand Prix — Liam O'Brien
Barnes & Noble takes penultimate step to exiting Queens — Liam O'Brien
Fifth employee connected to Hong Kong bookstore goes missing — Liam O'Brien
20th anniversary edition of Infinite Jest features fan-designed cover — Kait Howard

Japan will tax ebooks beginning 2015

Kirsten Reach

Japan will start collecting taxes for online sales of foreign content in 2015. That means all ebooks, music, apps, and whatever else you might be downloading online. Daiwa Institute of… Read more »

As expected, Judge Cote refuses to remove meddling monitor Michael Bromwich from the Apple case

Alex Shephard

Over the last two months, Apple has waged a war of words against Michael Bromwich, a lawyer/part-time Brian Huskie lookalike appointed by Judge Denise Cote to ensure that the tech… Read more »

Kafka’s Metamorphosis transforms once again

Christopher King

In 2011, the designer Peter Mendelsund made waves with his stunning series of covers for Franz Kafka. Published in new editions by Schocken, the covers were a radical departure from… Read more »

Publisher markets traditional print book by making it even more impractical, expensive

Martin Rouse

Hoping to sell more copies of Chang-rae Lee’s new novel On Such a Full Sea, Riverhead Books teamed with MakerBot Industries to create a limited edition, 3-D printed slipcase for… Read more »

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