What’s being left out of the US edition of the new Prince Charles biography?
Charles, Prince of Wales, is not a man whose inner depths inspire great speculation. If you opened up the top of that extremely long head, the odds are good that… Read more »
Activists put up billboard on Amazon’s doorstep
Amazon employees heading into work at the Seattle office will find something new on their route these days: a 48-foot billboard with the words “What’s the CIA Doing on Amazon’s… Read more »
Farewell, Glas, come back soon
“I thought the world will gasp with admiration.” This is how publisher Natasha Perova described what she thought would be the reaction to the first books by Glas, the Russian… Read more »
Spanish dictionary adds words useful for action flicks, also some other words
The Real Academia Española is the institution responsible for determining what is and isn’t acceptable in Spanish, and as such, one of its duties is updating the official dictionary. This… Read more »
Kindle Scout launches, immediately corners pitbull-themed sci-fi market
While we like to snipe at Amazon pretty regularly on this blog, we can be gracious in defeat, magnanimous when we see them trounce traditional publishing in new and undreamt-of… Read more »
Translators and the Nobel Prize
There’s a new development that has crept into coverage of the Nobel Prize for Literature in recent years: after the announcement and then the round of explainers has come interviews… Read more »
James Frey is building a “21st century world” with a pot of gold at end of it
James Frey, Innovator, has launched his newest project, Endgame, which is a book and another book and a novella and a movie and an alternate reality game and a mobile… Read more »
10 ways to celebrate Open Access week
This week is the eighth annual Open Access Week, and that means confetti! No, actually, it means something much better than that: a week of discussions about the great and… Read more »
Finnish parliament to consider crowdsourced copyright law…. sike!
Oh haha, Finland. You almost had us convinced you were serious about hearing your citizens’ ideas on copyright. When you announced your Citizen’s Initiative Act, where any proposed bill that… Read more »
Dutch publisher De Geus starts an English-language house
If English-language publishers are hesitant to publish translated fiction, one solution that foreign publishers sometimes turn to is doing it themselves. World Editions is the newest incarnation of this idea,… Read more »