July 25, 2014

The New York Daily News broke the story on Wednesday that Mayor Bill de Blasio and Queens Borough President Melinda Katz have dismissed eight library trustees who voted to allow… Read more »

Libraries & librarians

University of Iowa president makes badly-timed joke, librarian calls him out — Chad Felix
Tolstoy’s great-great-granddaughter organizes four-day marathon reading of War and Peace — Ena Brdjanovic
French Booksellers Association releases reading list meant to shed light on Paris attacks — Kait Howard
Uproar over publication of Haruki Murakami's high school library records — Liam O'Brien

The Department of Labor picks “Bartleby the Scrivener” for its “Books That Shaped Work in America” list

Sal Robinson

The Department of Labor, begrudgingly founded by William Howard Taft on the last day of his presidency, turned 100 last year and celebrated by compiling a reading list of “Books… Read more »

Who’s behind the books of the world’s top-grossing films? The answer won’t surprise you.

Lisa Campbell of The Bookseller reported yesterday that “UK books power world’s top-grossing films.” In it, she reveals that 40% of the highest-grossing films since 2001 were adaptions of novels… Read more »

Kindle Unlimited more limited than unlimited for indie authors

Bradley Babendir

Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited plan, an ebook subscription service (like Scribd and Oyster), launched last week with over 600,000 books, and no deal with any big five publishers. As we reported… Read more »

The “bewildering” task of illustrating Finnegans Wake

Martin Rouse

Finnegans Wake sometimes feels like a big, tome-shaped scab. Not to suggest that it’s bad or anything—scabs do their job amazingly well when they’re left alone. But people just can’t… Read more »

Melville House Books

Mayor de Blasio and Queens borough president dismiss library trustees in ongoing investigation

Claire Kelley