The Associated Press recently broke the news of a major event in celebrity-focused crowdsourced publishing: Simon & Schuster will publish a crowdsourced book on Taylor Swift that fans will help create.… Read more »

In today’s edition of banned children’s books, we bring you the case of teacher and Tea Party chairwoman Mary Carney, who wants For Every Child, a Better World, a children’s… Read more »

Topics discussed: The 1990s Chicago Bulls, Nike Air Pippen IIs, NAFTA, Doc Martens, Michael Schaub, Jesse Montgomery, Ryan Holiday, Mein Kampf, Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim, The Daily Show, The Onion, blurbs,… Read more »

Another day, another stack of children’s books that are actually socially dangerous tools of the insidious Gay-Muslim-Liberal conspiracy to inculcate the innocent minds of young readers with perverse concepts. Depressed yet? You will be!… Read more »

As reported here on Moby Lives, coloring books for adults have become something of a trend recently, with Scottish illustrator Johanna Basford’s nature-themed books landing on bestseller lists. And now… Read more »

Topics discussed: Tim Parks, length, reader feedback (write to us!), Michael Schaub, Ben Carson, thinkpieces, Hillary Kelly, The Way We Publish Now, serialization, cookie cutting (metaphorically), Jonathan Franzen, Harper Lee,… Read more »

Topics discussed: blurbers, blurbers, blurbees, Led Zeppelin, logrolling, the state of the publishing industry, the state of our confusion about the publishing industry, ISIS, Alex’s love of ISIS, Alex’s love of… Read more »

In a story that feels a bit like déjà vu, the Supreme Court has reinforced the decision to keep Sherlock Holmes in the public domain. Michael Schaub writes for the… Read more »