As we enter the second week of Amazon.com’s boycott of ebooks from over 400 American, Canadian, and British independent presses distributed by the Independent Publishers Group (IPG) (see our earlier MobyLives… 5 / Read more »

The news that Amazon.com has removed thousands of ebooks from the Independent Publishers Group (IPG) — the distributor for hundreds of small presses — in retribution after IPG refused to… 14 / Read more »

MobyLives has previously noted rumors (see this earlier report) that Amazon has been making “astronomical” demands on publishers trying to negotiate their annual contract with the company. It’s the talk… 9 / Read more »

We’ve written before about the difficulties faced by literary translators: low pay, lack of recognition, frequent black eyes from the slamming shut of publishers’ doors. So it’s heartening to see… Read more »

Ten years ago, Melville House founders and publishers Dennis Johnson and Valerie Merians were “Babes in the tangled wood of modern publishing,” writes WWWord.com in its recent profile of the… 1 / Read more »

The other day, Carolyn Kellogg at the Los Angeles Times brought up some interesting points about book blogging and review copies as a result of an unintentionally brusque e-mail from… 3 / Read more »

Yesterday, Edan Lepucki in The Millions wrote a great piece on the perils of self-publishing and the benefits of working with a small publishing house. She also noted that “the… 5 / Read more »

Rafik Schami is a Syrian author and critic who has been living in exile in Germany for the past forty years; his last novel, The Dark Side of Love, was… Read more »

Few, if any, publishers have gone after pirates the way John Wiley & Sons has. Now, the company has cranked it up a notch further. As Jim Milliot reports in… Read more »

A post on New York mag’s Vulture blog pointed us in the direction of this recent interview with Stephen Malkmus (of Pavement, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, etc.) in Spin in… Read more »