October 14, 2014

Last week, we brought news of a major leap into the future from those brave, bold innovators at Amazon: the creation of New York’s first-ever pop-up shop/storage facility/product takeout space/kitchenware… 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

Happy Ada Lovelace Day!

Kirsten Reach

Today is International Ada Lovelace Day, a celebration of women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM). It’s also the publication day for Ada’s Algorithm by James Essinger. There are… Read more »

Get your books written by Chinese supporters of Occupy Central, while supplies last (which might not be for long)

Liam O'Brien

Another week, another book ban—Texas, you and China should hang out. Let us go then you and I, to check out the latest round of repression and censorship of Chinese publishing,… Read more »

New Catholic literary prize

Nick Davies

A new literary prize with religious underpinnings has been established by America magazine and St. Thomas More Chapel at Yale University, Ron Charles reports for the Washington Post. Accompanied by… Read more »

What’s worse than waking up as a beetle?

Zeljka Marosevic

As a new stage production of Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis reveals, it’s waking up as a robot. The Japanese director Oriza Hirata has cast a robot to play the part… Read more »

Melville House Books

What will be sold at Amazon’s New York non-store?

Mark Krotov & Alex Shephard