Happy (post) Independents Day!
It’s the day after a holiday and you’re on the internet, chances are you’re after something good to read. Well, like any good indie, we want to make you happy. Here’s… 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 »
Light DRM, or no DRM?
The debate over Digital Rights Management systems (DRM) continues to rage unabated. Even this week, French Publisher Michel Lafon announced that they are following sci-fi publisher Tor and going DRM-free. Still,… Read more »
The New York Times launches a Chinese edition
On Thursday, the New York Times took a big step: it opened its first foreign-language website, cn.nytimes.com, a Chinese-language edition of the Times. For a news organization, opening your first… Read more »
Your reading behaviour is being monitored
The Wall Street Journal reported last week on the extent to which big corporations are looking over our shoulders when we read: The major new players in e-book publishing—Amazon, Apple… 2 / Read more »
The two sides of David Carr
In the Columbia Journalism Review, Michael Massing suggests that there are two important sides to New York Times media columnist David Carr: “a relentless interviewer” and “incisive analyst” and a… Read more »
Heather Reisman is bullish on the books still remaining in her stores
“The book business is still a thriving business in every respect,” Heather Reisman, head of Canada’s biggest bookselling chain, Indigo Books & Music, announced at the company’s annual stockholders meeting… Read more »
Ciao, Snowy
It’s back to France for Flammarion: RCS MediaGroup, the Italian-based firm that owns Corriere della Sera and the publishing houses Bompiani, Rizzoli, and Adelphi Edizioni, has agreed to sell Flammarion… Read more »
Rare Agatha Christie Poirot book breaks auction house record
A rare copy of Agatha Chrisie’s Poirot Investigates, the 1924 story collection featuring her soon-to-be-famous detective Hercule Poirot, went for a record-breaking sum at auction, according to this report in… Read more »
Brazilian prisoners reduce sentences by reading
In Brazil, prisoners are being given a pressing incentive to read: time knocked off their sentences. Reuters reports that four federal prisons, which hold some of the country’s most notorious… Read more »