20th anniversary edition of Infinite Jest features fan-designed cover
Twenty years after David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest was originally published, the iconic cloud-dappled, block-lettered book cover design has been put to bed. Last August, Wallace’s longtime publisher, Little, Brown, announced… Read more »
Little, Brown to publish memoir of Charlie Hebdo editor finished two days before his murder
It’s been nearly a year since the attack on French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, an attack that left 12 people dead after Islamic extremists opened fire during an editorial meeting at… Read more »
ABA, Authors Guild, Association of Authors’ Representatives, and Authors United team up to demand Amazon antitrust inquiry
A month after the European Union announced an antitrust investigation into Amazon’s ebook contracts, four powerful groups representing authors and bookstores are uniting to demand that the U.S. government launch a… Read more »
Scrap the tattoo: Hachette Australia cancels controversial marketing campaign
Last week, we reported on a somewhat confounding marketing idea by Hachette Australia. The company is publishing the fourth book in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Series, The Girl in the Spider’s… Read more »
The first rule of Yahoo is that you don’t talk to authors who write books about Yahoo
When chief correspondent at Business Insider Nicholas Carlson’s book, Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo!, was released in January, the New York Times called it “a lot of fun to read”. That’s… Read more »
Back of the net! A second Alan Partridge book is coming soon
Alan Partridge, a fictional character so brilliant that he seems utterly, beautifully, disgustingly real has, over the last twenty-five years, conquered radio and television with his dashing mix of ignorance,… Read more »
Oyster is selling ebooks now. But is it targeting Amazon?
Since launching in the fall of 2013, the ebook subscription app Oyster has set out to create a f”comprehensive e-reading environment.” The company has grown significantly in its eighteen month… Read more »
“Fierce Imaginative Possession”: Literature and Competition
Last week, Buzzfeed published an essay by the writer Isaac Fitzgerald about his encounters with books during his youth and early adulthood. In the piece, Fitzgerald described a few of… Read more »
Back to 2014? Another Amazon-Publisher Battle Takes Shape
Ebola. The Sochi Olympics. MH370. The annexation of Crimea by Russia. The rise of ISIS. “All About That Bass.” Amazon v. Hachette. 2014 was a great year! So let’s roll… Read more »
What kind of garbage should we sell you directly through Twitter?
Hachette Book Group is selling three titles directly through its authors’ Twitter accounts. The trial run includes three authors with substantial fan bases: astronaut Chris Hadfield, singer Amanda Palmer, and,… Read more »