On never having to quit publishing
It has been a great year to be a dead author. Deceased thriller writers Steig Larsson, Robert B. Parker, Tom Clancy, and Ian Fleming all have new books out. The… Read more »
It has been a great year to be a dead author. Deceased thriller writers Steig Larsson, Robert B. Parker, Tom Clancy, and Ian Fleming all have new books out. The… Read more »
The news that Faber & Faber has just signed a book deal with comedian Stewart Lee provides us with 1. Reason to be happy and 2. An excuse to post the… Read more »
Stories about Amazon’s latest skullduggeries, you may have noticed, have shorter and shorter life spans. At least within the industry. The company’s endless series of monopolistic accomplishments have been so… Read more »
A thing long thought laughable, although a thing long predicted, has finally come to pass: Amazon is opening its own, brick-and-mortar bookstore today in Seattle. The fact that they were going to do… Read more »
33 Days is based on a manuscript that was smuggled out of Nazi-occupied France in October of 1940 by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, who took it to New York with the intent… Read more »
Conspiracy theories about the surprising deal between Simon & Schuster and Amazon ran rampant in the publishing industry yesterday. They started with the announcement of the deal itself—because the news… Read more »
The rising criticism of Amazon.com growing out of its dispute with Hachette ratcheted up significantly this morning when Paul Krugman attacked Amazon in his New York Times column, saying, “Amazon.com, the giant online retailer, has too… Read more »
Well, hell, no sooner do I chide big publishing for not speaking out about what’s really behind the war between Hachette and Amazon, and for issuing a series of “no… Read more »
As the war between Amazon and Hachette drags on — and on, and on, until it’s become a non-story — something I said in a Times report about Amazon’s behavior (“How… Read more »
It seemed like a miracle at the time, which was barely a month ago: On Friday our marketing manager told us he was quitting, treating the missus and me to… Read more »