Friday Sperm Whales
President Obama (or more likely a staffer) responded to a letter from New England Independent Booksellers Association director Steve Fischer, who had expressed concern about Obama’s decision to appear at… Read more »
Thursday Shepherd’s Beaked Whales
Larry Kirshbaum, chief of publishing at Amazon Publishing and “one of the most influential figures in the publishing world,” has been accused of sexually assaulting his former mistress in 2010. (New York… Read more »
Wednesday Narwhals
Though somewhat late to the game, Amazon has turned its sights on the app market and “is strengthening its presence on mobile apps by paying developers to carry advertisements for its products… Read more »
Monday Belugas
The DOJ continues to play strange and surprisingly ham-fisted games in the case against Apple, even after the trial’s conclusion. As reported in the Wall Street Journal and GigaOm on Friday, the DOJ has revised their… Read more »
Friday Basilosauruses
First, Barnes & Noble launches a big advertising campaign in the UK to bump up languishing Nook sales. Then, it runs out of Nooks. Probably not their finest hour… (The Guardian) Is… Read more »
Thursday Fin Whales
The British human rights group Reprieve is accusing U.S. authorities of preventing a copy of Alexander Solzhenistsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago from being delivered to Shaker Aamer, an inmate at Guantanamo Bay. (Reprieve)… Read more »
Wednesday Omura’s Whales
In what Laura Hazard Owen described as a “train wreck of an investor’s call,” Barnes & Noble reversed course on pretty much every major decision it had made over the… Read more »
Tuesday Spade-Toothed Whales
Simon & Schuster and Barnes & Noble have resolved their rough and tumble dispute. Both the cause of that disagreement and the terms of their resolution have remained largely unknown, though sources indicate… Read more »
Monday Grey Whales
The longlist for this year’s German Book Prize is out: 20 titles, with some names that may be familiar to English-speaking audiences (Uwe Timm, Terezia Mora, Clemens Meyer, Urs Widmer)… Read more »
Friday Pygmy Killer Whales
“No matter what Bezos says now, once his purchase of the Post closes, scheduled for the fall, he’s almost certain to begin imposing his standards and beliefs on the Post, or at least on… Read more »