Tax haven very concerned about the moral turpitude of your poetry collection
The Maldives—official slogan, “the sunny side of life,” unofficial slogan, “our tax code could be written on a bar napkin and you’d still have space for four or five international… Read more »
German technical university defies German textbook publisher in a case with a surprising amount of drama
In a case that echoes Google’s unauthorized scanning of millions of copyrighted works, the European Union Court of Justice has ruled that libraries in EU member states may digitize books… Read more »
Lawsuit pile-on! Shareholders sue Apple
Talk about kicking a multimillion-dollar corporation when they’re down. Last Thursday brought a new lawsuit for Apple, this time not from Amazon the US government, but from its very own:… Read more »
Where’s Barbara Epstein in the Scorsese NYRB documentary?
This week saw the release of the trailer for Martin Scorsese’s documentary on the New York Review of Books, “The 50 Year Argument,” which had its TV premiere in the… Read more »
Quality Paperback Book Club really, really doesn’t want to break up with you
Quality Paperback Book Club loves its members. It wants to share great books with them for low prices every month, to give them their next great read, to fulfill all… Read more »
Lost Copernicus volume turns out not to be so lost after all
Good news, heliocentrists! A copy of Nicholas Copernicus’s 1543 De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium, long thought lost in the fire that ravaged the Duchess Anna Amalia Library in Weimar, Germany ten years… Read more »
Do books in translation sell? A chestnut considered
Pity the poor publishing trends journalist. From time to time, maybe especially in the silly season, they’ll end up writing an article about translated books and sales, jousting with the… Read more »
Baldwin’s voice: on editing a collection of interviews with James Baldwin
These late days of July I’ve spent partly in putting together a collection of interviews with James Baldwin, which will be the next installment of Melville House’s Last Interviews series.… Read more »
“The Little Red Schoolbook” is back! Expect playground sit-downs, principled truculence, children confronting you about masturbation…
It’s been a long time coming—over forty years—but the full, unexpurgated edition of The Little Red Schoolbook, a controversial book of advice and information for children written by two Danish… Read more »
Amazon’s shares drop again
Live-blogging Amazon’s quarterly report announcements has got to be one of the more frustrating experiences in the range of human experience. The story is so often the same: revenue’s up,… Read more »