Highlights from the Penguin Random House year-end report
Man, Penguin Random House is huge. Did you know it was huge? You might have missed that it controls over half of the publishing industry. Or if you read last… Read more »
Ferguson Municipal Public Library stays open through a hard week, receives $300K in donations
Nothing in Ferguson has been resolved in the week since the grand jury decided not to indict Darren Wilson for shooting Michael Brown. But some brave librarians have stepped up to… Read more »
John Green thinks Amazon is a bully; The New York Times editorial board thinks it should back off
Earlier this week, we wrote that Amazon had lost Malcolm Gladwell over its nasty fight with the bestselling author’s publisher, Hachette. Over the past few days, Amazon has gained two… Read more »
The DOJ’s messing with publishers again. Is this a power play by Amazon?
At the Wall Street Journal, Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg reports that the U.S. Justice Department “has gone back to the publishers asking about any recent pricing discussions they may have had… Read more »
ALA releases their list of the most challenged books of 2013
The American Library Association just released their annual “State of America’s Libraries” report, and with it, their annual list of the country’s most challenged books. According to the ALA, the… Read more »
YA bestseller Eleanor & Park to become a film
Last week, DreamWorks Studios purchased the rights to Rainbow Rowell’s young adult hit Eleanor & Park, Entertainment Weekly reports. The novel, which came out in February 2013, has spent much of the… Read more »