July 14, 2015

ABA, Authors Guild, Association of Authors’ Representatives, and Authors United team up to demand Amazon antitrust inquiry

A month after the European Union announced an antitrust investigation into Amazon’s ebook contracts, four powerful groups representing authors and bookstores are uniting to demand that the U.S. government launch a… Read more »

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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

Why didn’t Ted Cruz make the New York Times bestseller list?

Kirsten Reach

Ted Cruz, author of the coloring book Cruz to the Future, has a new title that is not hitting the New York Times bestseller list. A Time for Truth was… Read more »

Charles Dickens just gave us the “Rosetta Stone of Victorian literature”

Liam O'Brien

Many of us in the book trade are experiencing burnout this week on the topic of previously “lost” works by iconic authors. Which is unfortunate, because Lazarus books are one… Read more »

Scrap the tattoo: Hachette Australia cancels controversial marketing campaign

Mark Krotov

Last week, we reported on a somewhat confounding marketing idea by Hachette Australia. The company is publishing the fourth book in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Series, The Girl in the Spider’s… Read more »

Seattle encourages summer reading with a book bingo game

Nick Davies

Every summer, schools and libraries ramp up their summer reading programs, in an effort to keep kids reading during the months they spend away from school. This year, cultural institutions… Read more »

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