South Korean bookseller sets new standard for rock-bottom ebook prices
The U.S. isn’t the only place where corporations are dropping ebook prices below levels the industry can support. South Korea’s largest bookstore, Kyobo (not to be confused with Canada’s lovely Kobo),… Read more »
Poetry in your pocket
I use few apps. The latest iPhone’s glamorous five rows mean little to me, since I hardly fill two on mine. Yet an app’s to blame for the fact that… Read more »
Ode to IMPAC Dublin and Translations
Five out of ten of this year’s shortlist nominees for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, often billed as “the world’s richest literary award,” but more precisely the world’s richest… Read more »
Will open access revolutionize academic publishing?
“Major players in the world of commercial scholarly publishing have little shame,” says Bryn Geffert, librarian at Amherst College and the man behind the new Amherst College Press. Fed up with… Read more »
Happy Birthday, Georges Perec
Today is the 77th anniversary of Georges Perec’s birth on March 7, 1936. He had a pleasant voice. (Maybe it’s the French accent.) You can listen to it in this… Read more »
The real March Madness
Books and sports aren’t mutually exclusive, but one is clearly better than the other. Sports—obviously—is the better one. I think I won’t hear much argument on this. But something out… Read more »
Non-Contradiction: The Atlas Shrugged Book Club
Here’s another division of the citizens of the world into two kinds of people: those who love, and those who hate, Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged. I was in high school when… Read more »