Pop culture figures making the leap to comic books is an established phenomenon: properties such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Bob’s Burgers, Predator, and many others have been turned into… Read more »

Earlier this month, we reported that the artificial sweetener Sweet’N Low had paid $1.3 million for product placement in an ebook called Find Me I’m Yours. Today in corporate sponsorship news,… Read more »

Pussy Galore, Holly Goodhead, Chew Mee… the names of female characters in James Bond novels tell you a great deal about the author Ian Fleming’s attitudes to women: he thought… Read more »

Three British scientists recently took it upon themselves to conduct an extremely serious investigation into James Bond’s alcohol consumption habits, with a particular focus on whether his famous “shaken, not… Read more »

Why do collectors pay so much for first editions of the James Bond books? In The Guardian, Rick Gekoski reports that the market for first editions by Ian Fleming occupy… Read more »

Some edits are great edits: an early draft of Casino Royale, an extract of which will be made public this weekend as part of celebrations around the book’s 60th anniversary,… Read more »

The small but venerable publishing house Avalon has been swept off in the river. The perimeters of the deal have yet to be announced, but Amazon’s increasingly large publishing arm has… Read more »