Ebook bundle makes over $1m in two weeks
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Ellie Robins
Ellie Robins is an editor at Melville House. Previously, she was managing editor of Hesperus Press.
FIGHT: Google vs French and Brazilian media
Media bodies in both France and Brazil have started scraps with Google lately over its use of their news content. Most worryingly: in France there’s a danger that news content… Read more »
Binders for your women — reviewed
“We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the Amazon reader comments” — said no political leader… Read more »
Crime writer wins gajillion-Euro Planeta Prize
Amid all the Booker buzz, a much more lucrative literary prize has gone largely unreported in the English-language press this week. The Planeta Prize awards a staggering €601,000 annually to one… Read more »
How many books does the Booker sell?
A summary of sales bumps in relation to the prize… Read more »
‘Mo Yan my ass,’ and other Nobel reactions: a round-up
The prize for the most ungracious response to Mo Yan’s Nobel win goes to… Read more »
Capuchin monkeys reject unequal pay
What political leaders the world over refuse to admit, monkeys understand at first sight. Primatologist Frans de Waal revisits an old experiment and discovers one of the truths of the… Read more »
Writers now earning fractions of pennies per word
The unspeakable glamour of the writer’s life: Gawker reports on a new low in writers’ wages, stumbled upon in this Craigslist ad. The as-yet untraced company in Portland, Oregon, is searching… Read more »
Beam me up, Ahab
It’s kind of amazing that this hasn’t been done before: a sci fi adaptation of Moby Dick is in the works, under the title Mobius. It’s described as a ‘psychological… Read more »
Rowling and a religious controversy
The most boring book in the world has sparked a religious controversy. Sikh leaders in India have spoken out against passages in J.K. Rowling’s A Casual Vacancy in which a… 2 / Read more »