There’s too much to read. This nagging anxiety afflicts everyone working in/for/around books at some point. And while it’s easy to see how luxurious a complaint it might be, it’s a… Read more »

In the long history of monstrous criminals writing books, there are plenty of obstacles to publication. Sometimes the law intercedes, sometimes the killer doesn’t manage to sell the book, and… Read more »

How long do you think you could feasibly hold a grudge? It doesn’t matter, because I can guarantee that this group of Japanese pirates have you beaten. In 1576 (that’s… Read more »

A good book can overcome many barriers in its quest to find an audience, but the Pacific Ocean apparently isn’t one of them. This is the case for Japanese literature,… Read more »

Japan has been hit with an ugly string of vandalism recently, with hundreds of copies of Anne Frank books defaced in Tokyo libraries. Martin Fackler writes for the New York… Read more »

Japan will start collecting taxes for online sales of foreign content in 2015. That means all ebooks, music, apps, and whatever else you might be downloading online. Daiwa Institute of… Read more »

 In an interesting bit of simultaneous-publication news, the American company Crunchyroll — which hosts live streaming anime and other TV shows on its website — has announced that it will… Read more »

This spring, Tokyo reminds us all of their status as one of the world’s cultural capitals with an impressive new International Literature Festival. The festival is slated to run March… Read more »

Major bookstores in Beijing have stopped selling books by Japanese authors, including Haruki Murakami’s newest tome 1Q84… Read more »

This is not a book industry story, but it is yet another reminder about the nature of the company that now essentially controls the industry’s marketplace. Predictably, Amazon.com has entered… Read more »