December 02, 2015 » MobyLives! Archives

Amazon Anonymous—the anti-Amazon campaigning group—celebrated ‘Cyber Monday’ in a unique way this year. The collective hired a ten-foot van to drive around central London carrying a fake Amazon advertisement that read: “Amazon… 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

A new pronoun in the Mx.

Taylor Sperry

For the Observer, Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke reports that while you were busy eating leftover turkey last weekend, the New York Times was grappling with a potential change to their style guide.… Read more »

Dangdang.com to open 1,000 bookstores in China

Chad Felix

E-retailers the world over are finally realizing the importance and joys of brick-and-mortar bookstores—or something like that. Yes, it would seem that physical bookstores are on the rise: there are tech-bros in… Read more »

In the city that spends the most on books, it’s only indies now

Julia Irion Martins

The American city that spends the most money on books, magazines, and newspapers—Washington, D.C.—will soon be left without any chain bookstores. Despite the recent revival of the brick-and-mortar bookshop (in London, and… Read more »

How to lose that icky post-Black Friday feeling: BINC, a charity for booksellers

Simon Reichley

Our national retail binge—Black Friday, etc.—is over, and now, perhaps, purged of our desire, we respond to the other impulse that comes on strong at this time of year—charitable giving, and… Read more »

Melville House Books

December 2, 2015

Amazon Anonymous shames Amazon’s tax dodging ways in new spoof ad

Zeljka Marosevic