October 16, 2014

Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) a reading app that is used by most libraries across the United States and many readers around the world to access ebooks with DRM, is collecting… 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

Elena Ferrante: should writers reveal their real identities?

Zeljka Marosevic

The Guardian reports from Rome that as anglophone interest in the Italian writer Elena Ferrante increases, her home country is becoming more desperate to discover the true identity of the… Read more »

Computers can write books now, but we probably don’t have anything to worry about

Liam O'Brien

Authors United asserted a few weeks ago that “books cannot be written more cheaply”. This is because books are written by authors, and though publishers may place restrictions on their authors… Read more »

Royal Mail celebrates Booker winner with innovative new postmark

Mark Krotov

Disruption! Everyone loves it, which makes sense because it’s a process with absolutely no downsides. Disruption is always, to paraphrase Justin Taylor, the best thing ever. But what happens when… Read more »

Dutch publisher De Geus starts an English-language house

Sal Robinson

If English-language publishers are hesitant to publish translated fiction, one solution that foreign publishers sometimes turn to is doing it themselves. World Editions is the newest incarnation of this idea,… Read more »

Melville House Books

Adobe is under fire from librarians for breach of ebook privacy

Claire Kelley