Amazon speaks!
Alex Shephard
Amazon does not like to talk. And Amazon especially does not like to talk to the press—when the company felt it had to address its dispute with Hachette in late-May it avoided… Read more »
The silence of the publishers
Dennis Johnson
As the war between Amazon and Hachette drags on — and on, and on, until it’s become a non-story — something I said in a Times report about Amazon’s behavior (“How… Read more »
Ugandan pirates on the loose: 80,000 illegal books seized
Kirsten Reach
Eighty thousand illegal copies of books, worth about Shs1.8b or $750,000 U.S., have been seized in Uganda. This is an effort to take unlicensed copies from bookshops and printers, part… Read more »
Banned Books Week turns focus to comics this year
Nick Davies
Banned Books Week will be celebrated once again this September, and the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF) is highlighting comics that have been challenged and banned in an effort to… Read more »
Tom Pynchon’s Liquor Cabinet documents the booze in Thomas Pynchon’s novels
Eliza Gilmore
Books inspire books; books inspire blogs; blogs inspire blogs; and blogs inspired by books inspire books, which then become movies. The most recent mutation of the “Julie/Julia”-type online literary project… Read more »
