Report that criticizes major academic publishers is censored, and you’ll never guess by who
Taylor & Francis, a major academic publisher, is facing controversy over their censorship of a series of papers on academic publishing that appeared in the journal Prometheus: Critical Studies in… Read more »
The career of Bantam Books publisher Oscar Dystel
Longtime Bantam Books publisher Oscar Dystel died at the age of 101 last week. His New York Times obituary describes how he took over a fading publishing company—Bantam Books—and made… Read more »
A U.S. ambassador was just sworn in on a Kindle, because why the hell not?
If you still need proof that ebooks are the unfortunate future of reading, then look no further than the U.S. Constitution. About two years ago, this aging document packed up… Read more »
Harvard’s library does, in fact, contain books bound in human skin
In April, we published a piece about a book from Harvard University’s library that was bound not with regular leather, but human skin. Unfortunately, science ruined the party, confirming the… Read more »
Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam coming to HBO
HBO is developing a television adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy, Nellie Andreeva reported in an exclusive for Deadline last week. Darren Aronofsky—director of Requiem for a Dream and Black Swan—has… Read more »
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