Good news in Ferguson: the public library hires a new children’s librarian
In November and December, the Ferguson Public Library served as a community center. Though protests raged and schools closed down, librarians came to work, providing a shelter for those in… Read more »
Uber is eager to get into the lucrative business of print
Yesterday Uber announced it would be publishing a quarterly print magazine for its 150,000 drivers. Momentum is not only the name of the magazine, but something the organization needs to… Read more »
Barnes & Noble creates a new college bookstore business, B&N Education
The college bookstore business is still going strong, and Barnes & Noble has found a way to improve its stock by emphasizing its textbooks. In an announcement yesterday, the company said… Read more »
8,000 rare books burned by ISIS militants in Mosul
Sunday night, the Mosul Public Library was bombed, another casualty in ISIS militants’ book-burning campaign. The explosive devices used here are described as “improvised” or even”crude,” as though reporters’ disgust with this… Read more »
Neruda will be returned to his grave
Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda passed away forty-two years ago, but—as MobyLives has discussed in great detail previously—suspicions about the cause of his death keep rising. This weekend Judge Mario Carroza,… Read more »
Lord Byron would have liked the sauna
Looking for some serious real estate in Mayfair? Lord Byron’s former home is up for grabs. It’s 17,800 square feet, in a prime location, and about to be converted from… Read more »
Faber hints it’s parting ways with FSG to start a new U.S. company
Is Faber & Faber opening a U.S. branch? It certainly sounded that way from the company’s announcement in The Bookseller yesterday: the company is ending its partnership with Farrar, Straus,… Read more »
Foyles sales are up 2.2%, though the new flagship store was “quite costly”
We hardly need to tell you that moving is expensive. But family-owned bookseller Foyles has just moved from its storied space after 85 years. The company’s end-of-year numbers reflect that cost.… Read more »
Bertelsmann continues to take on the world. Next up: Brazil, China, and India
Bertelsmann, the German media giant that owns that little publisher Penguin Random House, has decided to grow in the education and digital media markets abroad. The company announced yesterday that it… Read more »
Budgeting with F. Scott Fitzgerald
Yesterday Scribner Magazine republished this gem of a budget from F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. First published in The Saturday Evening Post on April 5, 1924, and this week it joins a… Read more »