Stephen King wants Governor Paul LePage to “man up and apologize”
It’s tax season, everyone! And in a radio address in which he proposed a tax overhaul plan, Maine Governor Paul LePage suggested that “famous residents [are] leaving the state because… Read more »
UK’s Department of Culture spending cut by 8% — but it could have been worse
The Culture Secretary, Maria Miller has agreed with the Treasury that the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) will take an 8% cut in spending. English museums and arts… Read more »
David Rees confesses to his years at Bain: “I have been CEO … the entire time”
We’re getting to this kind of late, but there’s shocking news coming in via Twitter: right-wing cartoonist and artisanal pencil sharpener David Rees has confessed that he has served as CEO… Read more »
Will Fifty Shades of Grey double Random House’s profits?
Random House USA has sold nearly 20 million books in E.L. James’ Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy, according to a Wall Street Journal report by Jeffrey Trachtenberg. The books—which went… Read more »
Erotica and the state of publishing in Yemen
It’s not just Fifty Shades of Grey: it seems that erotic literature is having a moment in Yemen, too. The Yemen Observer reports that street-side booksellers in Tahrir Square are… Read more »
VAT fight! European Commission investigates France and Luxembourg for slashing ebook tax
The European Commission has started “infringement procedures” against France and Luxembourg for “unilaterally” lowering VAT taxes on ebooks after January 1, 2012 and thereby breaking European Union law. As the… Read more »
The dark visions of Alberto Vitale
Former Random House CEO Alberto Vitale is back from the dead, expounding on the future of publishing and desperately trying to seem relevant in a long interview posted on Publishing… 2 / Read more »
What does it cost to deliver an ebook?
In a much-discussed post at Boing Boing, Cory Doctorow focuses on author Andrew Hyde, who recently “wrote and self-published a great-looking travel book” via the usual ebook retail channels but… 5 / Read more »
Why don’t British lefties buy newspapers?
In the New Statesman Dominic Ponsford wonders why left-wing readers in the UK won’t buy physical newspapers. The Guardian has gotten a huge boost in online traffic after a year… Read more »
Arguing about “marginal cost”
In an article on the Columbia Journalism Review website Ryan Chittum takes on a spate of recent tech posts “arguing that production costs (you know, minor details like advances, editors,… Read more »