‘Go Set A Watchman’ breaks sales records, probably makes Dan Brown cry
On Tuesday, amid controversy and excitement, Harper Lee’s Go Set A Watchman was released to the world. From bookshops to grocery stores in mid-Missouri, it seems that Watchman is available pretty much everywhere.It turns… Read more »
The case of the missing “Grey” gets Greyer
A week ago, our own Liam O’Brien bragged like a 1920s bank robber about the heist of the century, snagging a copy of Grey before its release. Now, it appears that his story… Read more »
Scholastic’s Reading Report proves stuff most people assumed anyway
This week, in statistics that seem high but should probably be higher, Scholastic is reporting that 73% of kids ages 6-17 would read more books if they could find more… Read more »
Waterstones Bookstore organizes a slumber-party
On Oct. 16, a tourist visiting London found himself in a precarious position: locked inside a Waterstones bookstore. After two hours and a handful of futile escape attempts, he sent… Read more »
Regan Arts’ first project will virtually be a real book.
The first project from Regan Arts, the multimedia-publishing-imprint-venture-company started by Judith Regan, will be a “virtual reality” book, titled The Virtual Reality Beginner’s Guide and VR Smartphone Toolkit. It is set for release on… Read more »
Barnes & Noble to bring ‘Espresso Book Machines’ to three locations
Barnes & Noble, widely seen across the bookselling industry as pioneering innovators who are always one step ahead, are testing “Espresso Book Machines” in three of their east coast stores,… Read more »
Words from literary characters
William Shakespeare wrote “What’s in a name?” and 420 (or so) years later, The Guardian has answered “kind of a lot, actually.” The publication went through literary history and found… Read more »
Kindle Unlimited more limited than unlimited for indie authors
Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited plan, an ebook subscription service (like Scribd and Oyster), launched last week with over 600,000 books, and no deal with any big five publishers. As we reported… Read more »
After protests, Singapore unbans two of the three books it banned
A few weeks ago, Singapore decided to ban and pulp three children’s books it deemed to be insufficiently pro-family. At the time, the National Library Board announced that it would… Read more »
Harper Lee: new biography is unauthorized
I really thought people would have learned by now. It’s a really bad idea to mess with Harper Lee. She’s Michael Jordan, everyone else is Byron Russell and it’s Game… Read more »