July 24, 2015

The Financial Times newspaper was sold yesterday to the Japanese financial media group Nikkei. The FT had been owned by Pearson Publishing Group, one of the biggest players in the… Read more »

Big publishing

Is Bill Gates the new Oprah? (No, of course not.) — Ena Brdjanovic
20th anniversary edition of Infinite Jest features fan-designed cover — Kait Howard
Castaway Jose Salvador Alvarenga denies eating his companion — Taylor Sperry
Crowdsourced Taylor Swift book announced, latest in a grand publishing tradition — Liam O'Brien

NPR book reviewer Alan Cheuse still in the hospital after a car accident

Julia Fleischaker

Alan Cheuse, professor at George Mason University, author, and book reviewer at NPR, was in a serious car accident. The accident, which occured as he was driving from the Squaw… Read more »

Astoria Bookshop is selling Ta-Nehisi Coates’ book at cost to encourage people to read it

Liam O'Brien

The building sense of urgency leading up to the publication of Between The World And Me, the second book by Ta-Nehisi Coates, was palpable. The decision by Spiegel & Grau to move… Read more »

Not that book thief, a different one: employee arrested in French National Library theft

Taylor Sperry

The National Library of France, which holds more than 14 million books, has seen a rash—OK, two—major thefts over the course of the past year, the New York Times reports.… Read more »

Melville House Books

Going, going, gone! The rush sale of The Financial Times

Zeljka Marosevic