October 09, 2014 » MobyLives! Archives

If your employer requires you to do something, is it work and should you be paid for it? This is the question at the heart of a case being heard… Read more »

Amazon

After removing its books from Amazon, children’s publisher reports record profits — Kait Howard
Amazon picks up The Last Tycoon adaptation, casts Kelsey Grammer in lead — Liam O'Brien
Book spotted in San Bernardino shooting suspects' home inspires Amazon review battle — Liam O'Brien
Amazon shows New Jersey a thing or two about traffic — Liam O'Brien

City of Indianapolis 0, local adult bookstores $1,000,000 (or more)

Liam O'Brien

Gay marriage isn’t the only gift that the Supreme Court just gave (well, didn’t take away) from Indianapolis. The Indiana Star reports that they also denied the city’s request to… Read more »

HarperCollins ups royalty for books sold through their website

Sal Robinson

Publishers’ websites have historically been pretty much the last place that readers go to buy books. If you asked a roomful of people, even a roomful of people at a… Read more »

Leon Panetta’s memoir kind of goes after Obama, has great title

Mark Krotov

The publishing industry has many unsung heroes, but some of the most unsung, and the most heroic, are the people that have to come up with titles of political memoirs.… Read more »

Today, October 9th, is the tenth anniversary of the death of the French philosopher, and inventor of deconstructionism, Jacques Derrida. Princeton University has decided to celebrate, or memorialize the theorist… Read more »

Melville House Books

October 9, 2014

Lawsuit on Amazon security screenings goes before the Supreme Court

Sal Robinson

City of Indianapolis 0, local adult bookstores $1,000,000 (or more)

Liam O'Brien

HarperCollins ups royalty for books sold through their website

Sal Robinson

Leon Panetta’s memoir kind of goes after Obama, has great title

Mark Krotov

Derrida’s ghost

Jacob Karpathian