October 24, 2014

James Frey, Innovator, has launched his newest project, Endgame, which is a book and another book and a novella and a movie and an alternate reality game and a mobile… Read more »

Publishing

Barnes & Noble takes penultimate step to exiting Queens — Liam O'Brien
Fifth employee connected to Hong Kong bookstore goes missing — Liam O'Brien
After removing its books from Amazon, children’s publisher reports record profits — Kait Howard
Castaway Jose Salvador Alvarenga denies eating his companion — Taylor Sperry

Amazon is France’s number one online retailer

Zeljka Marosevic

Amazon has become the leading online retailer in France for the very first time, The Bookseller reports. According to a consumer panel of 300,000 members, Amazon was the leading retailer… Read more »

San Antonio Public Library installs digital catalog access in the airport

The San Antonio Public Library has installed two kiosks in the San Antonio International Airport where travelers can browse the library’s digital collection and check out music, books, videos, or… Read more »

How to resign from the Chicago Sun-Times

Kirsten Reach

If you’re resigning from your newspaper job after twenty years, here’s a hell of a lede: “I’ve worked for almost two decades at the Chicago Sun-Times because it had a… Read more »

The philosophy of word processing

Monika Zaleska

Edward Mendelson recently waxed philosophical on Microsoft Word for The New York Review of Books blog, comparing its genius to Plato’s theory of Forms. But Mendelson is no Microsoft Office enthusiast, he’s a devotee… Read more »

Melville House Books

James Frey is building a “21st century world” with a pot of gold at end of it

Sal Robinson