In case you’re wondering about the fall-out from the price-war between Walmart.com, Amazon.com, Target.com, and Sears.com, and the news about struggling indies wasn’t enough, Jeffrety A. Trachtenberg, the Wall Street… 6 / Read more »
After months of questioning — and behind-the-scenes criticism within the publishing industry — W. W. Norton & Company has finally announced how it would handle the profits from its publication… Read more »
The novel supposedly written by Saddam Hussein, Get Out of Here, Damned One (see last week’s MobyLives news digest), has been banned from publication in Jordan “on the grounds that… Read more »
“I think it’s a first,” says Andre Schiffrin, longtime head of Pantheon Books and founder of the New Press. He’s talking about Alan Dershowitz’s effort to get California Governor Arnold… Read more »
Transita, a new UK imprint dedicated to publishing fiction by women 45 and older, is receiving some harsh criticism in the British press. According to a Guardian dispatch by Michelle… Read more »
A furor has broken out in England over an initiative launched by Macmillan UK that the publisher says is designed to get fiction by new writers into print. But the… Read more »
In a new autobiography released this month in Britain, Tom Maschler, former chairman of the prestigious literary house Jonathan Cape, recounts his years as one of Britian’s most successful publishers.… Read more »
Book publications in Germany show the country is undergoing “a huge revival of interest in the Nazi era” and social commentators are worried. As Kate Connolly reports in a story… Read more »
“It would be wrong” to say the novels of Emma Dunham Kelley-Hawkins were “terrible,” says Scott McLemee, “because ‘terrible’ makes them sound more interesting than they are.” But in the… Read more »