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 »

SeaWorld’s slow, inexorable suicide-by-media that began with the damning documentary Blackfish has taken a bizarre turn, on the eve of their former trainer’s book tour. John Hargrove, the former senior orca… Read more »

It came for baseball, elections, and now it’s coming for us. Data-crunching, the darling of the past couple of years (along with its strange, slightly patronizing nephew, “explanatory journalism”), has… Read more »

Penguin, one of five big publishers to be targeted by the Department of Justice in an ebook price-fixing investigation, has settled antitrust claims brought on behalf of consumers and 33… Read more »

Two weeks before United States of America vs. Apple Inc., the infamous e-book price-fixing case originally brought against Apple and five of the Big Six publishers, goes to trial, the… Read more »

Simon and Schuster, launched long ago in 1924 on the back of the very first, and bestselling, crossword puzzle book, is the newest in a line of publishers who’ve recently… Read more »

In February, Macmillan was the last publisher named in the U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit to settle. And yet their ebooks have begun being discounted on retailer sites like Amazon before… Read more »

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The titles cover all sub-categories of crime fiction and include many award winners… Read more »

Macmillan has announced that as of next year it will no longer print its monolingual dictionaries for learners of English; they’ll be available online only. Editor-in-chief Michael Rundell is quoted… Read more »