April 18, 2014

There is a bookstore in Cartagena, Colombia, called Ábaco Libros y Café. Along a wall lined with wine near the entrance is a collage of black-and-white photographs of all the writers who’ve… 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

In Google Books appeal, Author’s Guild calls for the creation of something that already exists: a National Digital Library

Sal Robinson

The Authors Guild appeal against the dismissal of the Google Books lawsuit got a shot in the arm yesterday when a number of major authors and organizations came out in… Read more »

Len Riggio sells 3.7 million Barnes & Noble shares

Alex Shephard

There’s something of a fire sale going on at Barnes & Noble right now—and no, they’re not cutting Nook prices again. Two weeks after Liberty Media dumped a large portion… Read more »

Does publishing have a gender problem when it comes to digital?

Zeljka Marosevic

Top industry heads got together at the “Publishing for Digital Minds Conference” at the London Book Fair to discuss gender equality and whether women are being left out from the… Read more »

Data reveals the cities with the highest concentration of librarians

Claire Kelley

The United States Department of Labor has released employment statistics for librarians, and analysis of the data by FiveThirtyEight has revealed where to find the most librarians per capita (Ownesboro,… Read more »

Gary Shteyngart retires from blurbing

Kirsten Reach

Book jackets will be a little bare in coming months. A prolific blurber has stepped down. Gary Shteyngart, author of Little Failure and Super Sad True Love Story, has endorsed… Read more »

Melville House Books

Hail & Farewell: Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Wah-Ming Chang