It’s here! At long last, the Waterstones Watch has arrived.
Who can compete with Apple? We have the answer at last: Waterstones. Leave it to a bookseller to attempt the impossible. The company has just “announced” the Waterstones watch, “a new page in wearable… Read more »
Should hardcovers cost more? This one’s $55
We’ve discussed whether books should cost less than a cup of coffee. Let’s take a minute to consider the opposite. Should books cost more, rather than less, the standard hardcover… Read more »
You suckers don’t know your Magna Carta
Eight hundred years after the Archbishop of Canterbury drafted the peace treaty you never got around to reading, and King John of England agreed to it (knowing, somewhere in his… Read more »
Caitlin Moran fears UK libraries are becoming “weak mutant ghosts”
It’s more than election season in the UK, or–an equally important popular vote–#GameofTotes in the States. It’s a season to support UK libraries. Speak Up for Libraries, an international coalition… Read more »
What’s the best way to publish “binge-reading”?
LitHub is off to a strong start, already making us forget it wasn’t here six months (or even one month) ago. Yesterday the site ran an article by the great… Read more »
“H is for Hawk” film rights sold to the actress who plays Cersei in “Game of Thrones”
Film rights for Helen Macdonald’s H is for Hawk have been sold to Lena Headey. You may recognize Headey as the actress who plays Cersei in the HBO adaption of Game of Thrones.… Read more »
The Dictionary of American Regional English is in a dilly of a pickle
We are wample-cropped to hear the Dictionary of American Regional English may be discontinued in June. American dialect executive secretary Allan Metcalf calls this project “greatest American lexicographical project of the latter… Read more »
Booker losses: Ion Trewin and Martyn Goff have passed away
Ion Trewin, journalist-turned-publisher and director of the Man Booker Prize, has passed away at 71. He was diagnosed with cancer last October, but continued to work with the committee through… Read more »
Atticus Lish wins PEN/Faulkner
Giancarlo DiTrapano, founder of the small press/magazine Tyrant Books, has a major award-winning book on his hands. Atticus Lish won the 2015 PEN/Faulkner Award yesterday. Preparation for the Next Life, Lish’s debut,… Read more »
Salman Rushdie pans classic novels on Goodreads. Does anyone care?
Today in author news that’s only questionably newsworthy, Salman Rushdie joined Goodreads. This might have made Twitter regardless–the man won a Booker Prize, and people pay attention to his presence… Read more »